Robotics does not have to be difficult. In this book, I introduce you to the field of robotics. The journey will be challenging; it’s intended to be. But by the end of the book, you will have hands-on exposure to many of the fundamental—and not so fundamental—aspects of robotics. You will work with hardware, assemble and solder a circuit board, write code in two programming languages, install and configure a Linux environment, and work with computer vision. Everything else you do with robots will be an extension of the lessons learned in this book.

Artificial intelligence, or AI, is an exciting field and my purpose in writing this book is to convey some of that excitement to you. I will be using the Raspberry Pi single-board computer as the primary tool through which you can explore how AI works and, consequently, gain additional insight on how you might incorporate AI into your projects and/or applications.