Summary

You've now seen throughout this book how to build and program your first robot. You've seen where to find out more and how to extend your knowledge. In this final chapter, we've summarized what you've learned and suggested how to use this to plan, build, and program your next robot, as well as taking it on tour and being a member of the robotics community.

You've seen how to design and plan a robot and how to build, program, and test a robot. You've learned hardware skills such as soldering, simple software such as moving a robot, and have touched lightly on complex areas such as computer vision and inertial measurements. You've shaken out bugs, made tradeoffs, finely tuned systems, and learned how to keep backups. You've made user interfaces, smart behaviors, and taken control of a robot with a smartphone.

You have reached the end of this book, but I hope this is just the start of your robotics journey.