Niels Affourtit has put together a brilliant project, one of my personal ‘holy grails’ – a submersible drone controlled by a Raspberry Pi. He put the Pi together with some 3D printed parts, some sensors and an HD camera. According…
Category: Robotics
Self-driving remote control model car uses Raspberry Pi as brain
Zheng Wang has taken a model Range Rover and slapped a Raspberry Pi and camera module on top, along with a portable power supply. His aims were to build a system that would self-drive along a track detect stop signs and traffic…
3D printed Half Life turret will have a Raspberry Pi brain
A very clever chap over at SolderChips is currently designing and 3D-printing a scale replica of a Half Life 2 sentry gun/turret. A Raspberry Pi will be used to do facial image recognition and then tell an Arduino to control some servos…
Looking inside a standard “yellow motor”
Richard (aka Average Man) used to like taking things apart when he was a youngster. This tendency has not diminished with age and he’s turned his attention to one of those standard “yellow motors”, such as those that come with…
Pi Wars interview – how it all started and more information
I was fortunate enough to be interviewed by Fahad Siddiqui from Packt Publishing last week about Pi Wars, the Raspberry Pi Robotics Challenge Competition. You can read that interview here. Packt have done some great Raspberry Pi books which you…
Packt offering free Raspberry Pi robotics e-book today
Packt Publishing have been offering a free e-book a day for a while now. Today is the turn of Richard Grimmett’s Raspberry Pi Robotics Projects. Here is a contents listing direct from their web page: 1: GETTING STARTED WITH RASPBERRY…
New armour-plated robotic car kit from Pi Borg
Pi Borg, the Cambridgeshire-based robotics specialist, who made such a splash with their Diddyborg, have just released details of a new kit. This kit, costing £99, comes complete with a foldable metal chassis, add-on boards and all the fixings you…
CamJam EduKit 3 – Robotics – Launches today for the Raspberry Pi
Tim Richardson, Jamie Mann (of The Pi Hut) and myself are very proud to announce the official launch of CamJam EduKit number 3. This one is all about Robotics and provides (almost) everything you need to build your own Raspberry…
Exterminate all long grass with a Raspberry Pi
Canadian Ron Ostafichuk took a lot of old pieces of wood and created a full-sized version of the most terrifying creature known to man: a Dalek! Powered by a 12 volt battery, he used a Raspberry Pi to control relay controllers…
Grippy grabby robotic arms with the Raspberry Pi
Dr. Prateek Tandon from Carnegie Mellon University has a PhD in Robotics and he is not afraid to use it. He has built two robotics projects that feature extra hands. The first (pictured above) has two large robotic arms that project from…