If you have jumped to this chapter without going through the projects in the previous chapters, let me outline the skills you need to complete the following projects. We will, of course, have to know how to get around the Raspbian OS in order to find our Integrated Development Environment (IDE).
After you have finished programming T.A.R.A.S, you may be inclined to take your new skills and compete against other people building Raspberry Pi robots. Pi Wars (https://piwars.org/) is such a place to do just that. Pi Wars is an international robotics competition that takes place in Cambridge in the UK. Up to 76 teams compete in challenge-based robotics competitions over the course of a weekend. Even though it is called Pi Wars, you can rest assured that you will not come back with a box of broken parts, as each of the competitions are non...