You're reading from Learn Robotics Programming Build and control AI-enabled autonomous robots using the Raspberry Pi and Python

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781839218804

Length 602 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Raspberry Pi

Concepts

Robotics

Author (1):

Danny Staple

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Table of Contents (25) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: The Basics – Preparing for Robotics

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Robotics FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Exploring Robot Building Blocks – Code and Electronics

4. Chapter 3: Exploring the Raspberry Pi

5. Chapter 4: Preparing a Headless Raspberry Pi for a Robot

6. Chapter 5: Backing Up the Code with Git and SD Card Copies

7. Section 2: Building an Autonomous Robot – Connecting Sensors and Motors to a Raspberry Pi

8. Chapter 6: Building Robot Basics – Wheels, Power, and Wiring

9. Chapter 7: Drive and Turn – Moving Motors with Python

10. Chapter 8: Programming Distance Sensors with Python

11. Chapter 9: Programming RGB Strips in Python

12. Chapter 10: Using Python to Control Servo Motors

13. Chapter 11: Programming Encoders with Python

14. Chapter 12: IMU Programming with Python

15. Section 3: Hearing and Seeing – Giving a Robot Intelligent Sensors

16. Chapter 13: Robot Vision – Using a Pi Camera and OpenCV

17. Chapter 14: Line-Following with a Camera in Python

18. Chapter 15: Voice Communication with a Robot Using Mycroft

19. Chapter 16: Diving Deeper with the IMU

20. Chapter 17: Controlling the Robot with a Phone and Python

21. Section 4: Taking Robotics Further

22. Chapter 18: Taking Your Robot Programming Skills Further

23. Chapter 19: Planning Your Next Robot Project – Putting It All Together

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Summary

In this chapter, you've seen how to free a Raspberry Pi from a screen and keyboard by making it headless. You set up an SD card to connect to your Wi-Fi and to enable SSH so you could connect to it. You've used raspi-config to personalize your Pi and secure it with your own password. You then made the first small steps in looking around the Linux system it has running on it. You also ensured the Raspberry Pi is up to date and running the most current software. Finally, we saw how to safely put the Pi into shutdown mode, so that filesystem damage does not occur when you unplug it.

You have now learned how to make a Raspberry Pi headless. You have seen how to keep it upgraded and connected to your network and the Pi is ready to start building with. You can use this to build Raspberry Pi-powered gadgets, including robots.

In the next chapter, we look at ensuring you don't lose valuable code or configuration when things go wrong. We will learn about what can...