Wolfram Donat is an engineer, a writer, and a maker who has written books on subjects ranging from home-built animatronics to Windows XP to using the Raspberry Pi in your projects. His varied interests include robotics, embedded systems, autonomous underwater vehicles, computer vision, and the Internet of Things.

He received his degree in computer engineering from the University of Alaska, Anchorage and has received funding from NASA for work on autonomous submersibles. He currently lives in Southern California with his wife, son, and a small menagerie.