Thanks to a generous gift from US-based company Zipwhip, the Raspberry Pi Foundation now has a coffee machine. But this is no ordinary coffee machine, Oh No! This one can be texted when coffee is needed and then sends a…
Category: Robotics
#RaspberryPi controlled robotic orchestra comes to Aberystwyth
Fantastic news from the Welsh Daily Post website: A robotic orchestra made of discarded instruments, a hoover and controlled by two tiny Raspberry Pi computers, will give its first public performance at the Bandstand at Aberystwyth on Saturday 22 June.…
RAPIRO – turn your #RaspberryPi into a cute robot
The Foundation just featured this on their blog and I thought I’d follow suit. Shota Ishiwatari has just started a Kickstarter project to fund the RAPIRO. This is a dangerously cute white robot with a Raspberry Pi as its brain…
PiBorg release motion and direction sensor for #RaspberryPi
PiBorg, UK-based manufacturer of GPIO expansion boards, have today released the XLoBorg. This I2C board plugs into the GPIO pins and enables you to measure movement such as bumps and shocks and determine direction. It features a 3-Axis Accelerometer and 3-Axis…
A talking robotic bartender with the #RaspberryPi
Lots of projects news this morning! Steven Hickson has been working with a Raspberry Pi and an Arduino to create a voice-controlled talking robot bartender. He himself admits that it’s a bit slow, but it is very polite! The voice command…
Quadcopter & #RaspberryPi Camera
JBAnovling has fitted his Pi quadcopter with a Raspberry Pi camera! via Quadcopter & Raspberry Pi Camera – YouTube.
#RaspberryPi enabled robot claw game
Stevenage-based Ryan Walmsley (he of rastrack.co.uk fame!) is developing a Raspberry Pi-based version of the classic arcade claw game. The game uses physical controls to manipulate a claw in a cabinet to grab prizes in the hopper below. An Arduino…
Aberystwyth Sailbot uses a #RaspberryPi
I had the pleasure of meeting the Aberystwyth Sailbot team at the Cambridge Raspberry Jam. They did a great presentation on their work on an autonomous model sailing boat that they planned on entering into the Massachusetts Sailbot 2013 competition.…
Play with your cat from work with a #RaspberryPi powered Remote Presence platform
New York-based MadSci is developing a Lab research project to “explore quick, inexpensive and easy deploying of remote-controlled interactions”. The project has been developed with a Raspberry Pi using web socket software Spacebrew Read about this great project over at…
Prosthetic robotic knee run by #RaspberryPi
Elliott Rouse has been doing postdoctoral research on robotic locomotion and has helped to develop a “Clutchable Series-Elastic Actuator” prosthetic knee with a Raspberry Pi doing all the computational grunt work. Very impressive stuff. Read more information