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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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What is a headless system, and why is it useful in a robot?

A headless system is a computer designed to be operated from another computer via a network, at times or in places where keyboard, screen, and mouse access to a device is inconvenient. Headless access is used for server systems, for building robots and making gadgets:

Figure 4.1 – A Raspberry Pi tethered to a screen, keyboard, and mouse

Figure 4.1 shows a system with a head where a user can sit in front of the device. You need to attach a screen, keyboard, and mouse to your robot, and hence it is not very mobile. You may be able to attach/detach them as required, but this is also inconvenient. There are portable systems designed to dock with Raspberry Pis like this, but when a robot moves, you'll need to disconnect it or move with the robot.

At some events, I have seen robots with tiny onboard screens, controlled by a wireless keyboard and mouse. However, in this book, we use a...

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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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