Robotics and electronics

Robotics is the most direct interface between your code and the real world around you

Robotics is the most direct way that your code can interact with the world around you. It can read actual sensor information and move real actuators and get real work done. The first thing your robot needs is the ability to sense the world around it. The one sense that we as humans feel is most useful is sight. With web cameras being so cheap and easy to connect to hardware, vision is easy to give to your robot. The real problem is how to interpret this data. Luckily, you can use the OpenCV project to do just that. It is a vision package that can provide simple image gathering and processing, to extremely complex functions like face recognition and extraction of 3D objects. You can identify and track objects…

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