Make your projects talk and understand speech with Raspberry Pi Use standard webcam to make your projects see and enhance vision capabilities Full of simple, easy-to-understand instructions to bring your Raspberry Pi online for developing robotics projects Table of Contents Preface Chapter 1: Getting Started with Raspberry Pi Chapter 2: Programming Raspberry Pi Chapter 3: Providing Speech Input and Output Chapter 4: Adding Vision to Raspberry Pi Chapter 5: Creating Mobile Robots on Wheels Chapter 6: Making the Unit Very Mobile – Controlling the Movement of a Robot with Legs Chapter 7: Avoiding Obstacles Using Sensors Chapter 8: Going Truly Mobile – The Remote Control of Your Robot Chapter 9: Using a GPS Receiver to Locate Your Robot Chapter 10: System Dynamics Chapter 11: By Land, Sea, and Air Index Preface Up Chapter 1: Getting Started with Raspberry Pi Getting started The unveiling Hooking up a keyboard, mouse, and display Installing the operating system Accessing the board remotely Summary Chapter 2: Programming Raspberry Pi Basic Linux commands on Raspberry Pi Creating, editing, and saving files on Raspberry Pi Creating and running Python programs on Raspberry Pi Basic programming constructs on Raspberry Pi The if statement The while statement Working with functions Libraries/modules in Python The object-oriented code Introduction to the C/C++ programming language Summary Chapter 3: Providing Speech Input and Output Hooking up the hardware to make and input sound Using Espeak to allow our projects to respond in a robot voice Using PocketSphinx to accept your voice commands Interpreting commands and initiating actions Summary Chapter 4: Adding Vision to Raspberry Pi Connecting the USB camera to Raspberry Pi and viewing the images Downloading and installing OpenCV – a fully featured vision library Using the vision library to detect colored objects Summary Chapter 5: Creating Mobile Robots on Wheels Gathering the required hardware Using a motor controller to control the speed of your platform Controlling your mobile platform programmatically using #Raspberry Pi Making your mobile platform truly mobile by issuing voice #commands Summary Chapter 6: Making the Unit Very Mobile – Controlling the #Movement of a Robot with Legs Gathering the hardware Connecting Raspberry Pi to the mobile platform using a #servo controller Connecting the hardware Configuring the software Creating a program in Linux to control the mobile platform Making your mobile platform truly mobile by issuing voice #commands Summary Chapter 7: Avoiding Obstacles Using Sensors Gathering the hardware Connecting Raspberry Pi to an infrared sensor Connecting Raspberry Pi to a USB sonar sensor Connecting the hardware Using a servo to move a single sensor Summary Chapter 8: Going Truly Mobile – The Remote Control of #Your Robot Gathering the hardware Connecting Raspberry Pi to a wireless USB keyboard Using the keyboard to control your project Working remotely with your Raspberry Pi through a wireless LAN Working remotely with your Raspberry Pi through ZigBee Summary Chapter 9: Using a GPS Receiver to Locate Your Robot Connecting Raspberry Pi to a GPS device Accessing the GPS programmatically Summary Chapter 10: System Dynamics Getting started Creating a general control structure Using the structure of the Robot Operating System to enable #complex functionalities Summary Chapter 11: By Land, Sea, and Air Using Raspberry Pi to sail Getting started Using Raspberry Pi to fly robots Using Raspberry Pi to make the robot swim underwater Summary Index Richard Grimmett Richard Grimmett has been fascinated by computers and electronics from his very first programming project, which used Fortran on punch cards. He has a bachelor's and master's degree in electrical engineering and a PhD in leadership studies. He also has 26 years of experience in the radar and telecommunications industries (he even has one of the original brick phones). He now teaches computer science and electrical engineering at Brigham Young University - Idaho, where his office is filled with his many robotic projects. He recently completed a book on using BeagleBone Black for robotic projects, and is now excited to release this title for those who prefer Raspberry Pi.