Si digital have used a Pi, Node.js, Nginx and the camera module to create a controllable robot arm. You use controls on your web browser to control the arm and build up points. I was unable to get it working…
Category: Robotics
New Motor Controller Board Kit for the #RaspberryPi
Ryan Walmsley, the programmer behind rastrack.co.uk, co-editor of Pi Weekly and organiser of the Stevenage Raspberry Jam has moved into the hardware arena with his Motor Controller Board. The budget-priced board is designed to do one thing, and do it…
A self-balancing #RaspberryPi image processing robot
Over on LetsMakeRobots, Samy74 has created a robot which balances on two wheels and uses ultrasonic distance sensors to prevent collisions. Samy has recently added the Pi camera module. Read more here
New product found: @4tronix_uk PiRoCon robot controller for #RaspberryPi
eBay vendor 4tronix, (@4tronix_uk) who have proved themselves to be very good at customer service (just ask @gadgetoid or myself!) and super-fast on delivery have just released the PiRoCon – a GPIO robot controller plugin board. It has the following features:…
Manty is a #RaspberryPi robot that uses BrickPi
Laurens Volk received the BrickPi from the Kickstarter campaign a few weeks ago. He’s built an NXT praying mantis-style robot with the kit and bits that he already had (see above). For more info and a video of the robot,…
New issue of Linux User and Developer is a boon for #RaspberryPi robotics enthusiasts
This month’s Linux User and Developer magazine (issue 132) is a bumper issue for Raspberry Pi owners: 18-page special by Russell Barnes and Jason Barnett on building a Raspberry Pi robot A two page guide to taking pics and video…
Picopter dissertation by Matthew Watson uses a #RaspberryPi
Sheffield-based Matthew Watson has been building a quadcopter with an onboard Raspberry Pi. He’s now written his dissertation regarding the project and has published it online. Very interesting to read and gives a lot of technical information on the challenges he…
School racing car project gets performance monitoring from a #RaspberryPi
St Faith’s school in Cambridge has had help from ARM to build it’s battery-powered racing car, the Green Goblin. To keep track of the performance of the car, they use a Raspberry Pi! Read a little more at Cambridge News
Self-balancing #RaspberryPi robot uses camera module and openCV to do object tracking and following
Fantastic video (though sadly no guide to recreating) from YouTube user 74Samy. He used Pierre’s tutorials about using OpenCV and the Pi camera. The robot uses the following parts: Carbon fiber chassis 2000 mAh 11.1V LiPo battery PIC24 microcontroller Murata…
#RaspberryPi Lego Robot tutorial
Andrew Oakley has created a robot out of LEGO with a Raspberry Pi controlling all the motors and steering etc. He’s done a complete walk-through of the build and listed the parts you need to replicate his work. Read it…