Fresh from the post comes a great controller for the micro:bit from 4tronix – the Bit:Commander. It’s baking hot up in the office, so I’m just going to do a quick review and my thoughts on it. The micro:bit plugs…
This is lovely and also a great micro:bit resource. The folks over at Kitronik have written a detailed explanation of how to build this great London Eye and turbine station model over on their blog. It uses their All-in-One Robotics…
Getting started with robotics is always tricky. For Raspberry Pi robotics, I always point people at the Pi Wars Hints and Tips guide. For micro:bit, however, you might find this guide a great place to start to build the robot…
A group of students at the Stanford University Student Robotics group have developed a lightweight, open source quadruped robot design. They’ve called it the Pupper and it runs from a Raspberry Pi 4. The cost for the Pupper is between $600…
Hi everyone. I’ve just given a talk on getting into robotics at the Preston Raspberry Jam and I promised I would publish the notes and slides. They’re both PDFs and should, if I’ve done it right (!), include plenty of…
For those of you who don’t already know, we have decided to postpone Pi Wars 2020 for the time being due to the Coronavirus pandemic. The full statement can be read here.
A group of researches at Northwestern University in Illinois, USA have used 100 Raspberry Pis on a small robot chassis to develop swarm behaviour. Without centralised control, these robots form shapes by communicating with each other. The robots don’t “care”…
Neil Lambeth, of Red Robotics has recently released his first motor controller board for the Raspberry Pi. “Oh, not another one!” I hear you cry… Well, hold up there – this is one to pay attention to and it’s not…
American educational robotics company Dexter Industries has been acquired by fellow American robotics company Modular Robotics. Dexter Industries, the company behind the excellent Raspberry Pi-based GoPiGo and the micro:bit-based Gigglebot as well as several others was merged into Modular Robotics…
Sometimes, a book comes along that exceeds your expectations. When I saw that Matt Timmons Brown (“The Raspberry Pi Guy”) had teamed up with No Starch Press and that he had a very well-known and respected (though he’d never admit…
