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BeagleBone Robotic Projects

You're reading from BeagleBone Robotic Projects Developer or hobbyist, you'll love the way this book helps you turn the BeagleBone Black into a working robot. From listening and speaking to seeing and moving, we'll show you how ‚Äì step by step.

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2013

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781783559329

Length 244 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

BeagleBone

Concepts

Single Board Computers

Author (1):

Richard Grimmett

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

BeagleBone Robotic Projects

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Getting Started with the BeagleBone Black FREE CHAPTER

2. Programming the BeagleBone Black

3. Providing Speech Input and Output

4. Allowing the BeagleBone Black to See

5. Making the Unit Mobile – Controlling Wheeled Movement

6. Making the Unit Very Mobile – Controlling Legged Movement

7. Avoiding Obstacles Using Sensors

8. Going Truly Mobile – Remote Control of Your Robot

9. Using a GPS Receiver to Locate Your Robot

10. System Dynamics

11. By Land, Sea, and Air

Index

Chapter 4. Allowing the BeagleBone Black to See

Your projects can communicate via voice; now you are going to add vision with a webcam. You'll use this functionality in lots of different applications. Fortunately, adding hardware and software for vision is both easy and inexpensive.

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Authors (1)

Richard Grimmett

Richard Grimmett

Richard Grimmett has more fun that should be allowed working on robotics projects while teaching Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Brigham Young University Idaho. He has a Bachelors and Masters degree in Electrical Engineering and a PhD in Leadership Studies. He also has 26 years of experience in the Radar and Telecommunications industries, and even has one of the original brick phones. He has written books on the basics of using the BeagleBone Black for robotics projects, and another for the Raspberry PI and yet another for the Arduino.

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