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Published inFeb 2021
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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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Further reading

Please refer to the following for more information:

  • Make Electronics: Learning by Discovery, Charles Platt, Make Community, LLC: I've only started to cover some basic electronics with the switch and breadboard. To get a real feel for electronics, Make Electronics is a superb introduction.
  • For more advanced electronics, try Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition, Paul Scherz, Simon Monk, McGraw-Hill Education TAB: This gives practical building blocks for electronics that can be used to interface a robot controller with almost anything or build new sensors.
  • The colorsys library, like most Python core libraries, has a great reference: https://docs.python.org/3/library/colorsys.html.
  • Pimoroni have some other demos with the LED SHIM at https://github.com/pimoroni/led-shim/tree/master/examples. These could be fun to adapt to our LED layer.
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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.
Read more about Danny Staple