Edison is a tiny robot that runs an 8-bit Freescale processor and is currently being funded via a Kickstarter. It’s just hit the $50k stretch goal which means the software to program it will be supported on the Raspberry Pi. Looks…
Category: Robotics
Hacking a 15″ R2-D2 with the Raspberry Pi
Oakland, California-based Andrew Langley has written a tutorial based on his experience hacking the 15″ Hasbro Interactive R2D2. He’s even included a mini-projector in the build to give R2 that realistic feel. Read about it here or watch the video below.
TurtlTeck robotics kit from Ryan Walmsley
I don’t normally cover non-Raspberry Pi stuff, but this is one of those rare occasions. Ryan Walmsley, creator of the RyanTeck Motor Controller Board for the Raspberry Pi, has just launched a Kickstarter campaign for his latest product: the TurtlTeck. The…
Raspberry Pi Junkbot made out of a drinks can
Hayden Tetley and Scott Turner have created a robot out of a drinks can, an electric motor and a Pi. They’ve used the PiRoCon motor board to control the motor and a lot of sticky tape! See the video below.…
Make a Raspberry Pi powered Big Trak
Leo White has written an article over at Linux User in which he takes a Big Trak, a few other components (like a motor driver board) and converts it to use a Raspberry Pi. Leo’s an expert on hacking Big Traks (I’ve…
Win a robotics kit with Linux User magazine
Linux User magazine, in association with the Little British Robot Company, are giving away a Makeblock Starter Robot Kit to one reader who: Likes the ‘Win a RasPi robot’ post on Facebook Retweets the ‘Win a RasPi robot’ post on Twitter Shares a photo of…
Control motors with your Raspberry Pi and this video tutorial
Matt Timmons-Brown (aka The Raspberry Pi Guy) has done a new video! Always slickly produced and accessible, this one is an update to a previous video he did in which he controls a DC motor. He uses a RyanTeck Motor…
Line following robot does it’s work with the Raspberry Pi camera
17-year-old student Arne Baeyens has taken a Pi, a camera module and a controller board and built a line-follower robot. He took part in the RoboCup Junior competition in May with the robot and came third. He has done a,…
Raspberry Pi powered Hexapod – the HexPi
Someone over at Mikronauts has taken a Pi, a hexapod chassis and 18 servos and put together a Pi-controlled hexapod robot. It’s a great project, that probably cost quite a bit, but it looks fantastic.
4tronix gives an update on their Raspberry Pi robotics kit
Online retailer 4tronix has been working on a robotics kit for some months now and they’ve just provided an extensive update as to their progress. They’ve recently been featured on RasPi.Today and now Gareth has published a blog post telling us…