The folks over at Dexter Industries have taken an elf-on-a-shelf, their PivotPi servo controller board, a servo and an ultrasonic distance sensor and built an animated elf that reacts and waves when someone approaches it. It’s very cute and you…
Category: Robotics
Great collection of Raspberry Pi project resources from Les Pounder
Les Pounder, who writes for various Linux and Pi magazines and is an all-round top bloke :-), has just drawn my attention to a great list of Pi-related resources that he has written. There’s loads of projects and guides, including some…
Build an Amazon Alexa-controlled Raspberry Pi robot
The guys over at Dexter Industries have put together a GoPiGo kit and then loaded onto it several pieces of software that allow you to issue voice commands to your robot. It’s a little laggy, due to the amount of inter-connection…
Making a Raspberry Pi motion tracking nerf gun turret
The guys over at YouTube channel Hacker House have used a Raspberry Pi as the brains behind a motion tracking, nerf gun turret. They’ve published a video which shows you how to build the turret and install the software. There…
Pi Wars – spectator tickets now available!
We are pleased to announce that spectator tickets for Pi Wars, the Raspberry Pi Robotics Challenge Competition, are now available. Following the success of previous events, the competition is running for two days this time (1st-2nd April). On the first day, over…
Kosovo Pi Wars – bringing robotic magic to Eastern Europe with Raspberry Pis
Based in the small town of Shtime, British Engineer Andy Moxon runs a club called Young Innovators. The club “aims to bring to life maths and physics, while also teaching the students programming and robotics”. He’s currently preparing his two classes for…
Industrial use of the Raspberry Pi – Peugeot Citroen
Car manufacturer Peugeot Citroen have developed an Automatic Guided Vehicle (AGV) to lift & transport cars around their factory. The vehicle, which travels almost 8km a day is controlled by a Raspberry Pi and uses a touch-screen display for monitoring…
DIY motorised skateboard controlled by Raspberry Pi Zero reaches speeds of 30km/h
Matthew Timmons-Brown (aka The Raspberry Pi Guy) has been around for ages, providing tutorial and other videos. Now, he has embarked upon his most ambitious project yet by building his own motorised skateboard, controlled (of course) by a Raspberry Pi.…
Scary Halloween hi-jinks with a spring-loaded scary mask driven by a Raspberry Pi
David Pride (he of the Pi-driven Connect 4 game along with other wonderful hacks!) has been at it again. In the hope of scaring the begeezus out of trick-or-treaters, he’s hooked up a motorised mechanism to his Pi that will launch…
New issue of The MagPi is out now – features include robotics, wizard chess and underwater camera
The 51st issue of The MagPi is out now. It’s a great issue and features a massive robot build guide by Brian Corteil. Also covered is Bethanie Fentiman’s robotic wizard chess and how to make an underwater camera robot. It’s…