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Published inFeb 2021
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ISBN-139781839218804
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Danny Staple
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Danny Staple

Danny Staple builds robots and gadgets as a hobbyist, makes videos about his work with robots, and attends community events such as PiWars and Arduino Day. He has been a professional Python programmer, later moving into DevOps, since 2009, and a software engineer since 2000. He has worked with embedded systems, including embedded Linux systems, throughout the majority of his career. He has been a mentor at a local CoderDojo, where he taught how to code with Python. He has run Lego Robotics clubs with Mindstorms. He has also developed Bounce!, a visual programming language targeted at teaching code using the NodeMCU IoT platform. The robots he has built with his children include TankBot, SkittleBot (now the Pi Wars robot), ArmBot, and SpiderBot.
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In this chapter, you learned how to interact with and use RGB LEDs, as well as how to choose and buy RGB LED strips that work with the Raspberry Pi. You learned how to make code for the LEDs on the robot, using them with robot behaviors. You also saw how the HSV color system works, which can be used to generate rainbows.

You can take the techniques used here to add LED-based status displays to robots and write code to link them with behaviors.

In the next chapter, we will look at servo motors and build a pan and tilt mechanism for moving sensors.

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Published in: Feb 2021Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781839218804

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Danny Staple

Danny Staple builds robots and gadgets as a hobbyist, makes videos about his work with robots, and attends community events such as PiWars and Arduino Day. He has been a professional Python programmer, later moving into DevOps, since 2009, and a software engineer since 2000. He has worked with embedded systems, including embedded Linux systems, throughout the majority of his career. He has been a mentor at a local CoderDojo, where he taught how to code with Python. He has run Lego Robotics clubs with Mindstorms. He has also developed Bounce!, a visual programming language targeted at teaching code using the NodeMCU IoT platform. The robots he has built with his children include TankBot, SkittleBot (now the Pi Wars robot), ArmBot, and SpiderBot.
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