Robotics Programming 101 shows you how to plan your first robotics program, pick a brain, language and operating system for your first robot. This book is also filled with programming examples in PBASIC, Arduino, Java and JRuby. Some of these examples include: serial communication, servo and microcontroller programs, sensors like sonar and a digital compass, text-to-speech, speech-recognition, computer-vision, differential drives, robot arms, basic navigation, and much more!

2. About Me First Book – The Definitive Guide To Building Java Robots, 2006 Apress Web & Java Consultant Small Business Owner – Web & Mobile Application Development (CodeGin LLC) Speaking at OSCON Java 2011

3. What’s a Robot? What’s the first thing that comes to mind???

4. A Terminator?

5. Asimo?

6. Packbot

7. What about this?

8. Is This A Robot? Is This A Robot?

9. How do you go from this?

10. Simple 4 Legged Robot

11. Big Dog

12. How Do Get From Here There? Time Better Sensors Better Motors Faster Computers Eventually… Money or wait until price comes down.

13. Just About All Robots Have: Motion Control (Actuators, Servos, Motors, Etc.) Sensors (GPS, Compass, Sonar, Laser, Vision, Audio) Computers (Stand-Alone or Clusters)

14. Microcontrollers ~ $50BASIC Stamp or Arduino

15. Servo Controllers ~ $40

16. Speed Controllers

17. Motors & Chassis ~ $25 - $1,000

18. Compass ~ $30

19. Sonar ~ $30

20. Where do you start? (Show Robot Parts)

21. You have to start somewhere!

22. Parallax BOE-Bot ~ $150

23. Lynxmotion – Biped ~ $800

24. Feynman Jr 2 ~ $1,500

25. How do you Program a Robot?

26. Volunteers? To Be A Robot & Robot Brain?

27. You’re A Robot Compass 2 Sonars Two Wheels

28. What is this robot going to do? Move Around Room, Get Something, Bring it Back?

29. How do you code this?

30. Robotics API – Part 1 ScottsBots Robot API JNI Layer (Comm, Sound, Vision) Microcontroller Code

31. Robotics API – Part 2 COMPASS Sonar JrStamp ServoController Jserial Port (COM1) Jserial Port (COM2) Basic Stamp PBASIC

32. Robotics API – Part 3 Simon Says Behavior Navigation Task Person Identification Task COMPASS Sonar Voice Ear Left Eye Right Eye Drive JrStamp ServoController Sound Card Web Camera

33. Microcontroller Code

34. PBASIC

35. Arduino

36. Two Ways To Get Telemetry Request  Response (Send Serial Byte) Wait… Receive Bytes/Strings Continuous Stream (Multi-Threaded) In Development

37. Java Microcontroller Code

38. JSonar & JCompass

39. Navigation Sample

40. Real Robot Examples Through Unit Testing

41. Limitations of this Robot?

42. What would make it better? Text to Speech? Speech Recognition? Vision?

43. Jvoice

44. JSpeechRecognizer Two Methods (Dictaction) – MicrosoftSR Train  Guess (Grammar) – SphinxSR Tell it what to expect  Only responds to commands

45. Vision (JCamera) First Get The Image public BufferedImagegetImage(); Windows – Java Media Framework Linux – Custom C Libraries Mac – Quicktime For Java???

46. Image Processing – Part 1

47. Image Processing – Part 2

48. Image Processing Basics (Threshholding) Color Detection Motion Detection Region of Interest Detection Object Detection

49. Real Robot Examples

50. Summary Real Robots Start Small You Need Sensors You need Speech & Vision

51. Thank You! @scottpreston / @scottsbots scott@scottsbots.com