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Python Robotics Projects

You're reading from   Python Robotics Projects Build smart and collaborative robots using Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788832922
Length 340 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Prof. Diwakar Vaish Prof. Diwakar Vaish
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Robotics 101 2. Using GPIOs as Input FREE CHAPTER 3. Making a Gardener Robot 4. Basics of Motors 5. Making a Pet Feeding Robot 6. Bluetooth-Controlled Robotic Car 7. Sensor Interface for Obstacle Avoidance 8. Making Your Own Area Scanner 9. Vision Processing 10. Making a Guard Robot 11. Basic Switching 12. Recognizing Humans with Jarvis 13. Making Jarvis IoT Enabled 14. Giving Voice to Jarvis 15. Gesture Recognition 16. Machine Learning 17. Gesture-Controlled Robotic Vehicle 18. Making a Robotic Arm 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Setting up the MQTT broker

Remember the old boring update process of vision processing? How can you forget? We have to do the same here as well. But lucky for us, this time it's not very long. So, let's see what we have to do to set up this server. Open up your command line and type in these following lines:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

You know what this line does. If you don't have a clear memory of it, then refer to Chapter 9, Vision Processing. Once the update and upgrade processes are complete, go ahead and install the following packages:

sudo apt-get install mosquitto -y

This will install the Mosquitto broker onto your Raspberry Pi. This broker will take care of all the data transfer:

sudo apt-get install mosquitto-clients -y

Now, this line will install the client packages. As you can imagine, Raspberry Pi in itself will be a client...

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