Python Robotics Projects : Build smart and collaborative robots using Python.

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Cover; Title Page; Copyright and Credits; Packt Upsell; Contributors; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Robotics 101; The hardware arsenal; Setting up Raspberry Pi; Let's program; Playing with voltage; Summary; Chapter 2: Using GPIOs as Input; A deeper dive into GPIOs; Interfacing the PIR sensor; Interfacing the ultrasonic proximity sensor; Interfacing through I2C; Summary ; Chapter 3: Making a Gardener Robot; Working with solenoids; Making the robot; Making it more intelligent; Making it truly intelligent; Summary; Chapter 4: Basics of Motors; The basics; Getting it rolling.

Changing the speed Summary; Chapter 5: Making a Pet Feeding Robot; Force measurement; Constructing the robot ; Making the robot detect pets; Summary; Chapter 6: Bluetooth-Controlled Robotic Car; Basics of the vehicle; Getting the vehicle ready; Controlling the vehicle by Bluetooth; Summary; Chapter 7: Sensor Interface for Obstacle Avoidance; Infrared proximity sensor; Autonomous emergency braking; Giving the car self-steering capabilities; Making it fully autonomous; Summary; Chapter 8: Making Your Own Area Scanner; Servo motor; Lists; Looking around ; LIDAR on an autonomous vehicle ; Summary.

Chapter 9: Vision ProcessingThe basics of images; Preparing Raspberry Pi for vision processing application; Image recognition; Summary; Chapter 10: Making a Guard Robot; Face detection; Knowing the face; Recognizing the face; Making the guard robot; Summary; Chapter 11: Basic Switching; Making Jarvis wake you up ; Working with relay and PIR sensor; Making the alarm irritating; Making it even more irritating; Summary; Chapter 12: Recognizing Humans with Jarvis; Turn on the light Jarvis; Understanding motion; Perfecting motion; Controlling the intensity; Intelligent temperature control.

Adding more Summary; Chapter 13: Making Jarvis IoT Enabled; Basics of IoT; The MQTT protocol; Setting up the MQTT broker; Making an IoT-based intrusion detector; Controlling the home; Summary; Chapter 14: Giving Voice to Jarvis; Basic installation; Automatic delivery answering machine ; Making an interactive door -- answering robot; Making Jarvis understand our voice; Summary; Chapter 15: Gesture Recognition; Electric field sensing; Using the Flick HAT; Gesture recognition-based automation; Summary; Chapter 16: Machine Learning; Making a dataset; Predicting using a dataset.

Making your home learnHome learning and automation; Summary; Chapter 17: Gesture-Controlled Robotic Vehicle; Accelerometers and gyroscope; Interfacing the inertial measurement unit; Gesture-controlled car ; Making it more advanced; Summary; Chapter 18: Making a Robotic Arm; Basics of a robotic arm; Degrees of freedom; Power house; Voltage; Capacity; Power-to-weight ratio; Maximum charge and discharge rate; Chemical composition; Finding the limits; Making the robot safe; Programming multiple frames; Speed control; Summary; Other Books You May Enjoy; Index.

Robotics is emerging to be a 100 billion industry by 2020 based on current trends and is about to create the largest technological revolution. This book will cover everything you need to know about robotics and will help you to build smart robots using Python.

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