BeagleBone Robotic Projects: Developer or hobbyist, you'll love the way this book helps you turn the BeagleBone Black into a working robot. From listening and speaking to seeing and moving, we'll show you how – step by step.

• Get to grips with robotic systems.
• Communicate with your robot and teach it to detect and respond to its environment.
• Develop walking, rolling, swimming, and flying robots.

• Unbox, power up, and configure the BeagleBone black with Ubuntu.
• Install speech recognition software to issue voice commands to your projects.
• Set up a webcam and a computer vision toolkit for distinguishing objects.
• Communicate with external motors to enable you robotics projects to move in a variety of ways.
• Process audio signals like music or other sounds.
• Add GPS capability to your system so it will know where it is.
• Use the building blocks you have learned to create complex robotic projects that can combine all of these features and more.

This book is for anyone who is curious about using new, low-cost hardware to create robotic projects that have previously been the domain of research labs, major universities or Defence departments. Some programming experience would be useful, but if you know how to use a personal computer, you can use this book to construct far more complex systems than you would have thought possible.