February 2021
Beginner to intermediate
602 pages
12h 37m
English
In this chapter, you will learn why the Raspberry Pi controller on a robot should be wireless and headless, what headless means, and why it's useful in robotics. You will see how to set up a Raspberry Pi directly as a headless device, and how to connect to this Raspberry Pi once on the network, and then send your first instructions to it. By the end of the chapter, you will have your own ready-to-use Raspberry Pi without needing to connect a screen, keyboard, or wired network to it, so it can be mobile in a robot.
We'll cover the following topics in this chapter: