The guys at Canadian company Roboteurs are currently running a Kickstarter campaign to fund their new stepper motor driver board – the SlushEngine. It looks like a stunning piece of kit and has the following features: Controls up to 4 bi-polar stepper…
Category: Robotics
Raspberry Pi controlled chicken door
Eric Escobar has created a door for his chicken coop which automatically locks and unlocks depending on how he programs it. You can read slightly more over at Hackaday or watch the video of it in action above. He’s posted…
Guitar powered by a Raspberry Pi and Arduino plays network logs
Ben Reardon saw a robot playing a classical guitar in 1988 at a World Expo in Brisbane, Australia. It stuck in his mind and he has now done his own version using a Raspberry Pi, an Arduino and some servos…
Raspberry Pi powered ultrasonic sensing Minion Fart Gun triggering machine
Paul Weeks has taken his Pi, hooked it up to an ultrasonic sensor and then created a LEGO contraption that fires a Minion Fart Gun when the Pi detects someone is near. It sounds utterly mad and stupid and… well,…
Review of the GoPiGo robot car for the Raspberry Pi
Rachel Gibbs over at Initial State has written an excellent review of the Dexter Industries GoPiGo robot car kit. She takes the reader through her initial impressions of the kit, her issues when assembling it and also a summary of…
Automated Raspberry Pi squirrel feeder
Blogger ‘ulfster’ decided he wanted to be kind to the wildlife in his garden. He has some squirrels that come into the garden but they were a little skittish around him when he tried to feed them. So, he struck…
Robotic otter used for emotional therapy has Raspberry Pi as a heart
Students on an MIT Product Engineering Processes course in 2013 decided to build a product to help patients suffering from anxiety and depression as a result of dementia. It’s a cute baby otter called Ollie who responds to touches from the…
Raspberry Pi egg-laying machine
Richard Hayler and his sons have been at the LEGO again. This time, they’ve created a LEGO chicken which lays real eggs by using motors to manipulate an egg out of the tail end. Read all about it here.
DIY oscilloscope uses a Raspberry Pi and LEGO!
Steve Schuler wanted to build an oscilloscope. He used LEGO, an Erector set, a LittleBits motor and a Raspberry Pi which generates the PWM necessary to drive the motor. The motor is hooked up to a spinning mirror that sweeps the laser…
Raspberry Pi on CBBC Technobabble
Children’s technology show CBBC Technobabble went to Pi Towers recently. Reporter Frankie Vu interviewed the Foundation’s Carrie Anne Philbin in which she introduced the Pi and lots of cool stuff you can do with it, like build a weather station or…