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Mastering Beaglebone Robotics

Master the power of the BeagleBone Black to maximize your robot-building skills and create awesome projects

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited
By: Richard Grimmett  
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|Sep 2025
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Key Features

    Book Description

    If you want a simple guide to building complex robots, then this book is for you. You'll need some programming knowledge and experience working with mechanical systems.

    What you will learn

    • Power up the BeagleBone Black to develop with both Python and C
    • Control DC motors to guide a tracked robot forward, backward, and side to side
    • Add sonar and infrared sensors to let your robot see its own way
    • Use a USB webcam to have your robot seek out and track colored objects or movements
    • Communicate with the servomotors of a robosailboat using a longrange wireless interface
    • Teach your robosailboat to navigate to a bearing and distance using GPS
    • Connect your BeagleBone Black to a flight controller to guide robots through the air
    • Make your robots autonomous and capable of controlling themselves

    Who this book is for

    Table of Contents

    1. Setting Up the Beaglebone Black
    2. Building a Tracked Robot
    3. Avoiding Barriers with Sensors
    4. Giving the Robot Sight
    5. Building a Robot that can Walk
    6. Building a Sailing Robot
    7. Using GPS to give direction to your Sailboat
    8. Measuring Wind
    9. Building an Underwater ROV
    10. A Quad copter
    11. An Autonomous Quad copter
    PDF ISBN: 978-1-78398-891-4
    Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
    Copyright owner: © 2014 Packt Publishing Limited
    Publication date: 2025
    Language: English
    Pages: 234

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