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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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Exercises

Try these further ideas to enhance your learning from this chapter:

  1. Sketch out another simple path and write code for the robot to follow it. For example, try to follow a figure-of-8 shape using your experience.
  2. Which methods would you add to the Robot object if you had an additional output to control, perhaps a single light-emitting diode (LED)?
  3. Consider how you would lay out a Robot object for a robot with kart-style steering. Which methods would it have? You don't need to write the code yet, but having an interface in mind is a good start. Hint—it probably has one motor speed for the drive and a motor position for the steering.
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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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