Fred Hoefler has developed a Raspberry Pi-powered motorised assistant for a hand weaver. The problem with hand weaving is that it is hard on the hands and arms and older weavers are often unable to continue their work due to…
Category: Robotics
Hacking robot dinosaurs with a Raspberry Pi with Dr Lucy Rogers
Last weekend, geeks, tinkerers and hobbyists gathered in Guildford for EMF Camp, a 3-day technology gathering for like-minded individuals. Talks ranged greatly in their topics but this one in particular caught my eye and I was lucky enough to catch…
Underwater ROV drone has a Raspberry Pi 3 on-board
You wait ages for an ROV powered by a Raspberry Pi and then two come along at once. Following on from Blue Robotics ROV the other day, the Foundation has blogged about OpenROV and their new Trident platform which has a Raspberry…
The MagPi reviews the 4tronix Raspberry Pi Zero Motor Shim board
The MagPi has posted their review of the 4tronix Zero Motor Shim board from issue 47. The largely positive review shows just how flexible the board is, especially considering it only takes up 6 GPIO pins. You can read the…
Pi Wars 2017 – applications now accepted for Raspberry Pi robotic challenge competition – #PiWars
Myself and Tim are excited to announce that applications for Pi Wars 2017 are now being accepted. We had 140 teams (!) register their interest, which quite blew us away, and so we are expecting that competition for places at the event will…
Affordable ROV solution uses Raspberry Pi in advanced electronics package
California-based Blue Robotics has developed an affordable ROV solution using a Raspberry Pi. The Pi is used in their advanced electronics package for extra computing power and to stream 1080p video up the tether. You can read a lot more…
Drinkro – the Raspberry Pi-controlled bartender
The folks over at Synchro.io have come up with a lovely robotic bartender solution using a Raspberry Pi. Called Drinkro, the system makes drinks out of vodka and several mixers using DC peristaltic liquid pumps connected to the Pi. There’s even…
Formula Pi – self-driving Raspberry Pi racing robots – Kickstarter
Pi Borg pride themselves on having the best robot motor controller boards on the market. They’ve come up with a really interesting idea: a league of autonomous racing robots which use the Raspberry Pi. You download the base code, alter it…
Pi Wars 2017 – Raspberry Pi robotics competition – rules and challenges published #PiWars
Two Pi Wars posts on the same day? Why yes! We’ve just finished publishing general information, general rules and the list of challenges for the 2017 Pi Wars competition.
Exclusive Pi Wars news on the newest edition of The Pi Podcast
There is news from the Pi Wars team (Tim and me) on the new edition of The Pi Podcast. I won’t spoil the exclusive here, but suffice to say: It’s exciting, it’s different from last year and we think people…