Summary

In this chapter, you have learned how to look after your code and configuration. You have seen how things can go wrong, and the strategies to protect your work from them. You have a starting point with pyinfra (over SSH) and Git that you can use together to be experimental and fearless about changes to your robot.You can edit code or configuration on your computer, giving you a copy other than what is on the robot and letting you use powerful editors. You can use Git to go back in time, so you can wind back from mistakes and experiments, or just see the differences. You can use pyinfra to take a fresh Raspberry Pi OS install and turn it into a copy of your robot, restoring it to where things were if it goes wrong.In the next chapter, we'll start to build a basic robot. We'll assemble the robot chassis with motors and wheels, determine what power systems to use, and then test fit the overall shape of our robot. Bring a screwdriver!