Danny Staple

Danny Staple is a robot builder and programmer. He has been a professional software engineer since 2000, uses Python professionally, and regularly contributes to open source projects. Danny has been building robots at home since 2004 and has a cupboard full of projects, including robots with wheels, cameras, tank tracks, legs, and arms, made from plastic, cardboard, metal, kits, lunchboxes, and modified toys. Danny authored Learn Robotics Programming, published in 2021 by Packt Publishing, and has written magazine articles for The MagPi. He runs the robotics YouTube channel Orionrobots and brings his robots to events such as Pi Wars and Arduino Day. Danny also mentors at CoderDojo KU, where he shows kids how to program in Python and has run Lego robotics clubs.