JavaScript Robotics: Building NodeBots with Johnny-Five, Raspberry Pi, Arduino and BeagleBone (Make)

✍ Scribed by Media,Backstop;Waldron,Rick;Szymczykowski,Pawel;Hughes,Bryan

• Publisher: Maker Media, Inc
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Series: Make (Maker Media Inc.)
• Edition: First edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

JavaScript Robotics is on the rise. Rick Waldron, the lead author of this book and creator of the Johnny-Five platform, is at the forefront of this movement. Johnny-Five is an open source JavaScript Arduino programming framework for robotics. This book brings together fifteen rock star programmers, each creating a unique Johnny-Five robot step-by-step, and offering tips and tricks along the way. Experience with JavaScript is a prerequisite.;Preface -- 1. Building robots with lo-tech materials -- 2. TypeBot -- 3. Getting started with NodeBoats -- 4. piDuino5 mobile robot platform -- 5. Controlling a hexapod with Johnny-Five -- 6. Building Voice-controlled NodeBots -- 7. An indoor sundial -- 8. Spooky lights -- 9. Cheerful J5 -- 10. Interactive RGB LED display with BeagleBone black -- 11. Physical security, JavaScript, and you -- 12. Artificial intelligence: BatBot -- 13. Delta robots and kinematics -- 14. Meow shoes -- Appendix A -- Index.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface --
1. Building robots with lo-tech materials --
2. TypeBot --
3. Getting started with NodeBoats --
4. piDuino5 mobile robot platform --
5. Controlling a hexapod with Johnny-Five --
6. Building Voice-controlled NodeBots --
7. An indoor sundial --
8. Spooky lights --
9. Cheerful J5 --
10. Interactive RGB LED display with BeagleBone black --
11. Physical security, JavaScript, and you --
12. Artificial intelligence: BatBot --
13. Delta robots and kinematics --
14. Meow shoes --
Appendix A --
Index.

✦ Subjects

JavaScript (Computer program language);Robots--Programming;STEM books;Robots -- Programming