Intelligent Machines is the merging of Robotics and AI or Machine Learning as some like to call it. These workbooks take you rapidly from the basics of robotics (Physical Computing) through creating a neural network on a micro-controller board to using a pre-trained model to control a servo.

The components needed are kept to a minimum. There is a lot to learn from just a few simple and cheap components. The most expensive item is the micro-controller itself which is not going to empty the bank. We will be using an Arduino Nano 33 BLE board. The software is free to download, it is called the Arduino IDE and the code we will be using is C/C++ which has a striking resemblance to p5.js.

It will be assumed that you have covered both the Algorithmic Art and Algorithmic Intelligence workbooks if you are very new to coding or unfamiliar with these coding languages. Even so the workbooks assuming no knowledge of robotics, Arduino micro-controllers or coding in C/C++, so don’t worry if that is new to you. we will go through this one step at a time.