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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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In this chapter, we learned about more sensor and device types. We then revisited our robot, planning where to add these sensors.

The chapter showed a shopping list for these parts and then used dimensions from the product pages of these parts to make CAD drawings. The CAD drawings let us visualize what we wanted in 3D. Next, we fabricated parts from these drawings.

We revisited manufacturing parts and used a variation on the template technique to make the brackets.

Finally, we assembled all these parts and now have a robot base ready to add sensors. We will wire in and program these sensors in the following chapters, starting with the distance sensors.

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Published in: Mar 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781803246079

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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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