Online retailer and innovator 4tronix have published an extensive guide to their motor controller board, the PiRoCon, detailing all the different connections and options available on the board. Well worth a look if you’re after something a bit more substantial…
Category: Robotics
A Lego 4×4 Crawler controlled by a #RaspberryPi
Karl Herrick, together with his kids, built a Lego 4×4 Crawler remote controlled car then added a Raspberry Pi, with camera. He paired it with a Nexus 4 smartphone and used ssh to issue remote commands to control it. Read…
Line following self-balancing robot controlled by a #RaspberryPi
Samuel Matos has developed a self-balancing robot and has now added a line-following ability to it. You can follow his progress, including a lot of details about the build and algorithms used, on his blog – http://roboticssamy.blogspot.pt/
Request for help – motor controller boards for the #RaspberryPi
Hello blog readers. First of all, thanks for reading – you make writing this blog worthwhile and it’s great to hear from a few of you from time-to-time, so keep those comments coming in. Very soon, I’m going to be…
Hijacking a Robosapien with a #RaspberryPi
Element14 blogger ’emotep’ has taken an old Robosapien robot and converted it for use with the Raspberry Pi and a LIRC infrared dongle. It’s a great project because it shows that you can recycle your old tech with a Pi…
Creating a robot with the #RaspberryPi and an #Arduino
Arnaud Boudou has written up his project to create a robot (RaspiDuinoRover) using a Raspberry Pi hooked up to an Arduino and some other bits and pieces. Included in this project is a DIY light source for the camera. Great…
Add video streaming from your #RaspberryPi robot to a web device
This article from Linux User & Developer builds upon their previous work to do with building a robot with a Pi. To start with, the article takes you through using mpeg-streamer very nicely to stream video from your Pi Cam.…
Your #RaspberryPi can read e-books to you with BrickPi
The folks over at Dexter Industries, creators of the BrickPi, have been busy at work creating a way for your Pi to read books to you. BrickPi is an add-on board which allows your Pi to communicate with LEGO Mindstorms…
Pimoroni now stocks the Laika robotics board for #RaspberryPi
Following their successful Kickstarter campaign, Team Laika has licenced Pimoroni to sell their excellent robotics board, the Laika Explorer. This board has the following: 2x analogue and 4x digital inputs – to connect sensors, switches and other input devices. 7x…
RyanTeck Motor Controller Board gets Scratch support on the #RaspberryPi
Ryan Walmsley’s Motor Controller Board has been given support in ScratchGPIO making it a very simple way for youngsters to get into robotics. Although not available yet, the brilliant Simon Walters was sent a prototype board for the work and…