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Published inFeb 2021
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ISBN-139781839218804
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Danny Staple
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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  • Try creating a file on your computer – a simple image or text. Try using SFTP to send it to the Raspberry Pi, then, using PuTTY, see if you can list the file with the ls command. The file could be a simple Python script, which you could try running on the Raspberry Pi.
  • Make a change that is incorrect to hello.py. Use diff to see the difference. Use Git resources (see the Further reading section) to find out how to return this to how it was before the change.
  • Make a backup of your Raspberry Pi SD card using the preceding instructions, make some changes to the data in /home/pi, then restore the image using balenaEtcher. You could even restore your backup to another SD card, and plug it into the Raspberry Pi as if it was the original.
  • I recommend finding out more about how Git can be used to look after your code, and even as a method of getting code onto the Raspberry Pi. Use the Further reading section to find out more about Git, and ways to work it...
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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