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Python Robotics Projects

You're reading from   Python Robotics Projects Build smart and collaborative robots using Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788832922
Length 340 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Prof. Diwakar Vaish Prof. Diwakar Vaish
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Preface
1. Robotics 101 FREE CHAPTER 2. Using GPIOs as Input 3. Making a Gardener Robot 4. Basics of Motors 5. Making a Pet Feeding Robot 6. Bluetooth-Controlled Robotic Car 7. Sensor Interface for Obstacle Avoidance 8. Making Your Own Area Scanner 9. Vision Processing 10. Making a Guard Robot 11. Basic Switching 12. Recognizing Humans with Jarvis 13. Making Jarvis IoT Enabled 14. Giving Voice to Jarvis 15. Gesture Recognition 16. Machine Learning 17. Gesture-Controlled Robotic Vehicle 18. Making a Robotic Arm 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Basics of IoT


In this chapter, we will be controlling devices in our home using our smartphones, but before doing this, we should understand the basics of this technology. The first topic of this chapter is IoT—the overused jargon in the modern world. It is something that everyone wants to know about but no one does. IoT can be related to a technology, where your refrigerator will tell you what items are low in supply and will order it automatically for you. Poor thing! This technology has some time to invade our houses. But IoT does not mean this alone. IoT is a very wide term, something which can be applied to almost all the places for optimization. So what is IoT then?

Let's break this acronym, Internet of Things sometimes also known as cyber physical systems. Now, what is Things? Any electronic object that has the ability to collect or receive data without human intervention can be called a thing here. So this thing can be your mobile, a pacemaker, a health monitoring device, and so on...

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