Richard Grimmett eBooks

Utilize the powerful ingredients of Raspberry Pi to bring to life your amazing robots that can act, draw, and have fun with laser tags About This Book * Learn to implement a number of features offered by Raspberry Pi to build your own amazing robots * Understand how to add vision and voice to your robots. * This fast-paced practical guide comprises a number of creative projects to take your Raspberry Pi knowledge to the next level Who This Book Is For This all-encompassing guide was created for anyone who is interested in expanding their knowledge in applying the peripherals of Raspberry Pi. If you have a fancy for building complex-looking robots with simple, inexpensive, and readily available hardware, then this book is ideal for you. Prior unde...

This book is for anyone who has been curious about using the Intel Galileo to create electronics projects. Some programming background is useful, but if you know how to use a personal computer you can, with the aid of the step-by-step instructions in this book, construct complex electronics projects that use the Intel Galileo....

Create amazing robotic projects on a shoestring budget Overview 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 In Detail Robotics development is accelerating, and an amazing array of new hardware and software capabilities are available to anyone with an interest in the area. Robots will soon be a part of our everyday life, and it will soon be as important to know how they work as it is to know how a computer works. Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized, fully capable PC that can be used for many of the things that your desktop PC does, such as...

Create complex and exciting robotic projects with the BeagleBone Black Overview Get to grips with robotic systems Communicate with your robot and teach it to detect and respond to its environment Develop walking, rolling, swimming, and flying robots In Detail Thanks to new, inexpensive microcontrollers, robotics has become far more accessible than it was in the past. These microcontrollers provide a whole new set of capabilities to allow even the most inexperienced users to make amazingly complicated projects. Beaglebone is effectively a small, light, cheap computer in a similar vein to Raspberry Pi and Arduino. It has all of the extensibility of today's desktop machines, but without the bulk, expense, or noise. This project guide provides step-by-...