Kassandra Perch - Hands-On Robotics with JavaScript: Build robotic projects using Johnny-Five and control hardware with JavaScript and Raspberry Pi

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Kassandra Perch is an open web developer and supporter. She began as a frontend developer and moved to server-side with the advent of Node.js and was especially enthralled by the advance of the NodeBots community. She travels the world speaking at conferences about NodeBots and the fantastic community around them.

Amit Rana is a Passionate Electronics Engineer, Maker, an Embedded Systems Professional, and Trainer. He has founded and is running three different firms in Electronics R & D, Product Development, and Robotics education. He holds a master's degree in electronics engineering. He has over 10 years of experience in embedded system designing and programming using various microcontrollers, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi with wireless technologies. He is also a professional writer who writes blogs on technology and education. He writes assignments on technical documents for few clients and also writes blogs on his website.

Shahid Memon is an analytical master of science in autonomous robotics engineering graduate possessing a bachelor's degree in computer science. He has collaborated with colleagues on product feasibility studies and new product ideas to meet clients' needs and support the company objectives. He has coordinated several product development projects and assisted in the design and testing phase. He is a strategic thinker with the ability to drive company goals and analyze research impacting products and business needs. He is an avid researcher of the latest trends within the technology industry and how it affects the business. He is a proven leader having outstanding communication, interpersonal, project management, and supervisory skills.

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There has been a rapid increase in the use of JavaScript in hardware and embedded device programming. JavaScript has an effective set of frameworks and libraries that support the robotics ecosystem.
Hands-On Robotics with JavaScript starts with setting up an environment to program robots in JavaScript. Then, you will dive into building basic-level projects such as a line-following robot. You will walk through a series of projects that will teach you about the Johnny-Five library, and develop your skills with each project. As you make your way through the chapters, you'll work on creating a blinking LED, before moving on to sensors and other more advanced concepts. You will then progress to building an advanced-level AI-enabled robot, connect their NodeBots to the internet, create a NodeBots Swarm, and explore MQTT.
By the end of this book, you will have gained hands-on experience in building robots using JavaScript

Hands-On Robotics with JavaScript is for individuals who have prior experience with Raspberry Pi 3 and like to write sketches in JavaScript. Basic knowledge of JavaScript and Node.js will help you get the most out of this book.