A team from Sparkfun have created a full-sized prototype replica of the BB-8 droid from Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Inside the sphere is a Raspberry Pi which provides the ‘brains’ for the robot. The team, comprised of Pamela Cortez,…
Category: Robotics
Pi Wars 2015 announced for Raspberry Pi robotics teams
Following the success of last year’s event, the Pi Wars team have announced that there will, indeed, be a Pi Wars 2015! The exact date and venue have yet to be confirmed, but it is expected to be in early December…
Home-made Raspberry Pi robot gets great write-up
Richard Saville has done a lovely write-up of his experience of building a Raspberry Pi robot from scratch. He’s used wood for the chassis, small motors and tracks. Read more here.
Control a Sphero robot from the Raspberry Pi with Astro Pi
Another one from Richard Hayler. This time, he’s using Python on the Raspberry Pi to detect changes in the Astro Pi’s accelerometer and then translate that into commands he sends over bluetooth to a Sphero. The Sphero is a cute little…
DiddyBorg with joystick control on the Raspberry Pi
The Diddyborg from PiBorg is a lovely, hard-wearing, speed robot. Richard Hayler has taken an old digital joystick he had lying around and hooked it up to a Slice of Pi prototyping board on the Pi so that the Diddyborg’s…
Eye-controlled wheelchair uses Raspberry Pi 2
Myrijam Stoetzer (14) and Paul Foltin (15) from Duisburg, Germany wanted to create a system whereby a wheelchair could be controlled by tracking eye movements. The eye tracker is made from a webcam mounted in the frames of some safety glasses. They use…
Remote-controlled Raspberry Pi spybot
Zach Igielman has taken a Pi2Go robot kit from 4tronix plus the pan-and-tilt mechanism for the camera, and created a robot. He’s then used SSH to remote-control it and a web interface to see the video camera stream. Here’s the…
Touch free water dispenser with a Raspberry Pi
Ismail Uddin over at Science Exposure has created a device that detects movement and then dispenses water. He’s taken a Raspberry Pi, a RaspiRobot board, a peristaltic pump and an SR-04 ultrasonic rangefinder module and put them together. His code and write-up is…
Prototype Swingometer powered by a Raspberry Pi
Pete Taylor, over at Kimondo.com, has written up his project to create an old-fashioned Swingometer. The Swingometer at the moment does not track the General Election results (on account of us not having had the election yet!) but instead “scrapes” a…
LEGO / Raspberry Pi rover
Xian has done a great job on this LEGO rover. It utilises Lego Power Functions and the Raspberry Pi and can be controlled via a web browser. He explains his build, with block diagrams and details on wiring and explains his use…