JavaScript Robotics: Working with Johnny-Five-0daytown

Getting started with JavaScript robotics using Johnny-Five

What Will I Learn?
Set up and install the Johnny-Five robotics framework
Control LED’s wired to a Raspberry Pi with JavaScript
Control LED’s wired to an Arduino with JavaScript
Trigger a relay wired to an Arduino with JavaScript
Control an Arduino-powered tank using an Xbox 360 controller

Requirements
Students should have a basic understanding of JavaScript
Students should have a basic understanding of Node.js
Access to a Raspberry Pi and/or Arduino

Description
This course is actually composed of a series of different “mini courses” that are divvied up in the various sections, which will introduce you to the Johnny-Five framework, and get you up and running with different examples for working with various components.

Johnny-Five is for those of you who would like to get into robotics, but don’t really care to learn languages like C or C++. Johnny-Five is a JavaScript framework that allows you to use any existing skills you may have picked up from web or Node.js development to control hardware.

Who is the target audience?
Anyone who wants to get started with robotics using JavaScript