CamJammer Darren Christie has written an excellent blog post on why people should get involved with the PiWars robotics competition in Cambridge in December. Read it here.
Category: Robotics
#RaspberryPi Robotics talk from the Raspberry Jamboree
Here’s Matt Timmons-Brown talking about robotics on the Raspberry Pi from the Manchester Jamboree. It was a good talk and he’s a great speaker – definitely worth 10 minutes of your time to listen 🙂
Budget robot kit for the #RaspberryPi just launched
Ryan Walmsley, creator of Rastrack and co-editor of Pi Weekly (and constant CamJam attendee!), has had a great success with his RTK motor controller board and has now branched out into a full beginners robot kit. The kit includes almost…
Doctor Who fan starts creating a K9 with a #RaspberryPi
Image copyright BBC. No infringement intended. Doctor Who fan William Reichardt decided that he wanted to do an electronics project that would bring together a Raspberry Pi and an Arduino. Being the Whovian he is he decided to recreate the Doctor’s…
PiWars – #RaspberryPi robotics competition – Coming in December 2014
At the February Cambridge Raspberry Jam, we announced “PiWars”. PiWars will be a challenge-based robotics competition for wheeled robots to be held in Cambridge on 6th December. Categories will include, for instance, a speed challenge, a maze navigation challenge and…
DoodleBorg – the #RaspberryPi tank
We saw this at the Cambridge Raspberry Jam last Saturday. It’s huge, it’s heavy and it’s controlled by a Raspberry Pi. It is 65kg of robot and uses 6 of PiBorg‘s new robotics board, the PicoBorg reverse, to drive 6…
Turn your #RaspberryPi into a wireless access point
I know I’ve covered this sort of thing before, but it’s always good to have as many tutorials as possible on a subject. In this case, Gary Sims from MakeTechEasier has written a tutorial on configuring your wifi adapter to…
PWM dimming of an LED on the #RaspberryPi
A father-and-daughter team wants to control servo motors using PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) on the Raspberry Pi. As a demonstration of how possible this is, they’ve started out by using PWM with an LED to fade it up and down.…
Control a LEGO motor with a #RaspberryPi and a Gertboard
Karl Herrick has taken a Gertboard and a 4.5v LEGO motor and linked them up to the Pi. He’s then looked at Alex Eames’ Python Gertboard suite and written some test scripts as a proof-of-concept. Read about how he did…
New #RaspberryPi budget motor controller boards available from @4tronix_uk
4tronix are now offering a new motor controller board called the MicRoCon. I got one of these in the post the other day and I’ve soldered it together (very easy) but not had the chance to play with it yet.…