The Pi Wars team is delighted to announce that tickets for our 2021 Online Conference are now available. They are free but everyone viewing the Conference must have one. That’s one per device watching. You will need to register for the Hopin.to…
A group of students at the Stanford University Student Robotics group have developed a lightweight, open source quadruped robot design. They’ve called it the Pupper and it runs from a Raspberry Pi 4. The cost for the Pupper is between $600…
For those of you who don’t already know, we have decided to postpone Pi Wars 2020 for the time being due to the Coronavirus pandemic. The full statement can be read here.
The last weekend of March sees the 5th Pi Wars competition. Teams from all over the world will come together in Cambridge, UK and compete against each other on seven challenge courses, hoping to earn points, prizes and glory. You…
Issue 9 of Hackspace magazine is out! There’s some great articles in there, from Rachel Wong and her wearable tech to Lorraine Underwood and her fantastic LED cube. Of particular interest to the Raspberry Pi community is a terrific 8-page…
Tim and I are delighted to announce that details of the challenges set for Pi Wars 2019 are now available on the Pi Wars website. I’ve also included links to the individual challenges below. We were delighted to be able…
Tim Richardson and I are pleased to announce that our next Pi Wars competition will take place on 30th & 31st March 2019. The competition, which has grown substantially since its inception in 2014, last year attracted over 150 applicants…
Issue 68 of the Raspberry Pi magazine The MagPi is out. Inside is a feature on the new Raspberry Pi 3B+ and a massive 8-page spread on Pi Wars, the Raspberry Pi-powered robotics competition that myself and Tim Richardson run which…
This year’s Pi Wars competition is really hotting up with 76 teams currently preparing to take on our seven challenge courses. Tim’s hard at work making courses and I’m hard at work sending out emails and doing all the administration work…
The first Pi Wars Scotland is going to take place on Saturday, 26th May at University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. This event, which is being run by Martin Evans and Philip Thompson, is the first to take place in Scotland and has…