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Published inMar 2023
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ISBN-139781803246079
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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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Part 1: The Basics – Preparing for Robotics with Raspberry Pi Pico

In this part, you will take your first steps in learning about Raspberry Pi Pico, then plan and build a robot around it, and get the initial robot code to make the robot move.

This part contains the following chapters:

  • Chapter 1, Planning a Robot with Raspberry Pi Pico
  • Chapter 2, Preparing Raspberry Pi Pico
  • Chapter 3, Designing a Robot Chassis in FreeCAD
  • Chapter 4, Building a Robot around Pico
  • Chapter 5, Driving Motors with Raspberry Pi Pico
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Author (1)

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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