Building on their earlier success with the Google Cloud Vision platform, the good people over at Dexter Industries have come up with a great way of sorting through chocolate bars for Halloween. Using a BrickPi and LEGO pieces, they’ve created an…
Category: Robotics
Derby Mini Maker Faire 2016 – thoughts and a highlights video
Today, I attended my first Maker Faire at the Silk Mill in Derby. Took a couple of hours to get there, and I have to say it was worth every minute of travel. Raspberry Pi highlights included Steve Upton and his…
Kickstarter for terrific robot kit featuring Raspberry Pi, Arduino and loads of blinkies!
Plum Geek have previously launched, and successfully funded a series of Arduino-powered robots on Kickstarter. Now, they’ve moved into the Raspberry Pi arena with the Spirit Rover. Inspired by the NASA/JPL Mars Rover, the full kit features a custom circuit…
Using a Raspberry Pi to control a face-tracking desk fan
The Foundation have just blogged this nice little project from Instructables user DevinL9. He’s taken a Raspberry Pi, hooked it up to a servo and then used the servo to control the position of a small fan with a small webcam mounted…
Adorable French mini-bike drives itself with the aid of a Raspberry Pi
Eric Unnervik, a master’s student at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, has developed a miniature motorbike that drives itself! Onto the bike he has strapped a Raspberry Pi (3, I think), a Navio2 add-on board and some…
ZeroBorg from PiBorg reviewed by the Raspberry Pi’s MagPi magazine
The MagPi have published their review of PiBorg’s ZeroBorg, the motor controller board from the successful Kickstarter campaign from a few months ago. In the extremely positive review, they look at the features and form-factor of the board, which is…
Watch the skies with this drone-free aerial Raspberry Pi camera robot
Brook Drumm has created a robot that will crawl along a string or fishing line above a room or area and take photographs and video. It uses some 3D printed parts and a few servos and is, of course, run…
Virtual reality viewing of crime scenes becomes a possibility with the Raspberry Pi
Mehzeb Chowdhury, a PhD researcher in forensic science and criminal investigations at the UK’s Durham University has been looking into the ways juries view crime scenes. Ordinarily, they rely on a mixture of sketches and photographs. Recent ideas at making…
Automated game-playing solenoids highlights image processing with a Raspberry Pi
Kristian Lauszus took a course about image analysis in which students were asked to create a project to do the analysis. They were allowed to use OpenCV but none of the in-built filters – everything had to be done from scratch.…
4tronix release new ZeroPoint Analog board – use for Raspberry Pi gauges!
Featuring a small stepper motor and an orange pointer, the new ZeroPoint board from 4tronix allows you to add a gauge to the Raspberry Pi. It has a Zero-sized form-factor and the motor is driven by an H-bridge motor controller.…