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Power up the BeagleBone Black to develop with both Python and C

Control DC motors to guide a tracked robot forward, backward, and side to side

Add sonar and infrared sensors to let your robot see its own way

Use a USB webcam to have your robot seek out and track colored objects or movements

Communicate with the servomotors of a robosailboat using a longrange wireless interface

Teach your robosailboat to navigate to a bearing and distance using GPS

Connect your BeagleBone Black to a flight controller to guide robots through the air

Make your robots autonomous and capable of controlling themselves

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Massera Riccardo Feb 13, 2015

I liked very much reading this book, it is a very simple and well written guide to develop many fully functional projects based on the BeagleBone Black board.After an introductory chapter, needed to get familiar with the BeagleBone Black board and install on it the operating system and the needed tools, every chapter will deal with a project of a specific kind of robot.Even if you do not have a strong background or you are not very familiar with DC motors, servos, controllers and other devices and parts used throughout the book, the author will guide you step by step, explaining the basic principles, the material needed, where to purchase it and how to put all together in a functioning robot.Every project in the book has a set of pictures of the components that help you understand the pinout and the connections that must be made as well as screenshots of the user interface of some tools; there are also screenshots of the code needed to program the robot and the most relevant parts of the code have an explanation statement by statement.To sum up, if you have some idea or project in mind that requires building a robot then this is the book for you.

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VizRTPhil May 05, 2016

This book doesn't hold your hand to the finish for these projects, but it gets you started, and points you in the right direction to continue. That's exactly what I wanted.

CNC guy Feb 09, 2015

I enjoyed Richard's first book, but it pales in comparison to this book. As with the first book, about the only negative thing I could say about this book is that USB is used for nearly everything despite having 66 GPIO lines available on the BBB. That said, several viable and sophisticated robotic projects are presented in this book.As the author of Hacking and Penetration Testing with Low Power Devices (Syngress, 2015), I do a lot of work with the BeagleBone Black. One of the things that I present in my book is an aerial hacking drone based on the BBB. I'm giving serious consideration to modifying the quadcopter presented in this book for use as the next version of my aerial hacking drone.

Raúl Feb 02, 2015

I really enjoyed reading this book and following its tutorials, it is well explained and it has some interesting topics that will help you start on your next robot, wether it is ground, air, water or even like a submarine. On the other hand, I will not recommend this book for beginners due to its target level, from intermediate to advance users, people that already have good foundations of electronics, or read previous books about a BeagleBone setup.From the book, I liked the sections about the underwater operations and the autonomous quadcopter, which generally are not explained in books of the kind "Robotics With..", although they are just a mere introduction to what can be achieved; everything will have images and screenshots of what's needed to follow the chapter and end up with a functional robot capable of operate by its own.I would totally recommend this book if you already have a BeagleBone and want to do something exciting with it.

Jaume Aragay Badia Feb 19, 2015

This is a good book, but be prepared to read a lot of external pages and buy extra boards and materials (the robot body for every chapter) if you intend to build the projects and learn (really basic) robotics using the BeagleBone as the center of the projects.After an intro to the BeagleBone it presents different projects, one on each chapter. I like that there are some explanations on why some things are done the way they are, but mainly it's a recipe book: "write this, then that" to install the different libraries that get the work done.The projects are nice and advanced but you learn to plug different boards to the BeagleBone to do the work instead of using the BeagleBone on it's own as some other reviewer said before me. It's the core of the projects but some work is delegated on other boards, even an Arduino.Where does it loose the fifth star?- There are mistakes on some formulas. I haven't tested the code on the projects, so I don't know about the code.- The use of screen captures for code with light grey text on a black background. It's not easy to read neither to follow to see what it's doing.If you want to know the capabilities of the BeagleBone, this is a good book. It also introduces some other technologies related to robotics and has a lot of links to external sources to get more info on those topics. So, in the end, you get a lot of info from external links in a single place, this book, than works as a launchpad to a whole world of basic robotics around the BeagleBone.

Mastering Beaglebone Robotics: Master the power of the BeagleBone Black to maximize your robot-building skills and create awesome projects

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