About the Reviewer

David Whale is a software developer living in Essex, UK. He started coding as a schoolboy aged 11, inspired by the school science technician to build his own computer from a kit and quickly progressed to writing machine code programs because they were "small and fast". These early experiments led to some of his code being used inside a saleable educational word game when he was only 13.

He has been developing software professionally ever since, mainly writing small and fast code that goes into electronic products, including automated machinery, electric cars, mobile phones, energy meters, and wireless doorbells.

These days, he runs his own software consultancy called Thinking Binaries and spends nearly half of his time helping to design the next wave of the Internet called The Internet of Things, by connecting electronic devices to it. The rest of the time he volunteers for The Institution of Engineering and Technology, running training courses for teachers, designing and running workshops and clubs for school children, and being busy with his Raspberry Pi, BBC micro:bit and Arduino.

He was the technical editor for the book Adventures in Raspberry Pi and the co-author of the book Adventures in Minecraft, and is a regular reviewer and editor of technical books from a number of book publishers.

I was really pleased to be asked to review this great new book of projects using the Raspberry Pi Zero. The size of the Pi Zero makes it ideal for building into other products. In this book, Richard Grimmett takes us on an amazing journey of circuit bending, coding, and innovating using this tiny computer! But don't stop here; the projects in this book will give you the skills you need and inspire you to come up with many new ideas yourself!