Not strictly Raspberry Pi, but I reckon it would be possible to reproduce with a Pi 2. Here’s a lovely project from Jochen Alt. It is a robot lamp called Luci which uses an ATmega chip to generate PWM signals for…
Category: Robotics
Developer seeks funding for remotely operated underwater vehicle powered by a Raspberry Pi
Sam Groome is an apprentice at an ROV manufacturer and a college student finishing his HND in electrical/electronic engineering. He has a dream: an underwater Raspberry Pi-powered remote controlled vehicle. The ROV is tethered to the surface via a cable and signals are…
Raspberry Pis patrol the Tate galleries after dark
The Making of After Dark from The Workers on Vimeo. “After Dark” was an installation by artists The Workers which patrolled the halls of the Tate Modern and Tate Britain last year. Visitors to the AfterDark.io website were able to control the Raspberry Pi-powered…
Raspberry Pi robot kit GoPiGo gets a node.js library
Good news from Dexter Industries today. Together with ‘a few key contributors’ their GoPiGo robotics kit is now controllable via programming language node.js. If you have one of their kits, or you just want to look at how node.js can…
Pi Wars publishes a guide to getting started with Raspberry Pi robotics
I’ve just finished updating a page on the Pi Wars website that should provide enough information for anyone to get started with Raspberry Pi robotics (and maybe even enter the competition!) It includes a list of things you need to…
Ipswich Makerspace open-sources their Raspberry Pi robot from Pi Wars
Keith Ellis and the guys over at Ipswich Makerspace did brilliantly well with their robot, TractorBot, at last year Pi Wars. They won Best Robot under £75 and placed very respectably in most of the challenges. (You can see the full…
Remote twerking robot using a Raspberry Pi
Dan Aldred, who created the mighty Pi Glove has used an Energenie Pi-mote IR sensor board to pick up the infrared signals for his (pretty darned cool) robot and then used the Pi to re-transmit the signals according to his program or web…
First person video with a Raspberry Pi attached to an RC TerraDrone
Beaneboper from Soldering Sunday has modified a remote-controlled Nerf TerraDrone so that his son can remotely control it and see what it is pointing at. He’s used the Pi Surveillance article from Makezine to set-up the camera part. Read more here.
Raspberry Pi robot competition Pi Wars opens up registration
The organisers of Pi Wars (aka Tim and I), the challenge-based robotics competition based in Cambridge, UK, have just announced that registration is now open for this year’s event. There are two application forms: The main competition – for those…
New line following video tutorial from the Raspberry Pi Guy
Matt Timmons-Brown continues his long-running series about robots with episode 3. This episode covers setting up your 4tronix Pi2Go Lite robot to follow a black line on a white background. As usual, Matt’s video is clear and informative and he’s…