Researchers from the Self-organizing Systems Research Group at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have created a swarm of robotic fish that can behave and adapt just…
A team of scientists from Imperial College London, Universiti Malaysia Sabah and the South East Asia Rainforest Research Partnership, together known as the SAFE Project, has been recording the health of the Borneo rainforest. Using solar-powered Raspberry Pis and sensors,…
Researchers from Cornell and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, have designed a wrist-mounted device that tracks the entire human hand in 3D. The device (pictured) uses the contours from the wearer’s wrist to create an abstraction of 20 finger joint…
Giles Booth has written up a great educational project that involves using a micro:bit to show you how a CPU/processor works. This is what he said about his intentions: I decided my micro:bit CPU would be a 5-bit computer, rather…
Hi everyone. I’ve just given a talk on getting into robotics at the Preston Raspberry Jam and I promised I would publish the notes and slides. They’re both PDFs and should, if I’ve done it right (!), include plenty of…
A group of researches at Northwestern University in Illinois, USA have used 100 Raspberry Pis on a small robot chassis to develop swarm behaviour. Without centralised control, these robots form shapes by communicating with each other. The robots don’t “care”…
This is a bit complicated, technically, but I’ve been asked to document the issue just in case someone comes across it. I was getting I2C read errors when using the new TE AmbiMate MS4 sensor board (review coming soon!) with…
Jeff Geerling has carried out a series of SD card benchmarks on his new Raspberry Pi 4 (1GB edition) and has shared them over on his blog. It is a great post, primarily because he doesn’t require the reader to…
Alex Eames has done his usual sterling power-measurement job on the day after the launch of the Raspberry Pi 4. Unsurprisingly, the Pi 4 uses more power than older models, and is far more suited to being a desktop model…
Alex Eames has done his usual sterling work at finding out the power consumption of the newest member of the Raspberry Pi family: the 3A+. He’s measured, as usual, idle power usage, usage as the LXDE desktop is loading and…
