Party Robotics have launched a Kickstarter project to fund their cocktail-dispensing robot, the Bartendro. The Bartendro has, at it’s core, a Raspberry Pi. In their effort to fulfil their goal of creating the perfect cocktail perfectly each time, they use Arduino clones…
Category: Robotics
#RaspberryPi robot controlled by Pi4J
Carl Hughes has blogged a video about the first run of his Raspberry Pi-powered robot created from a “magician” chassis. Random thoughts: First run for Raspberry Pi Bot.
Raspberry Pi running 4 5V stepper motors from GPIO
I’ve been playing around with some stepper motors with driver boards that I bought from eBay. They have a lot of potential and I’m planning to use them on an astronomy project… but more on that later. The motors were £1.66…
Educational robot The Finch gets #RaspberryPi support / @Raspberry_Pi
BirdBrain Technologies‘ robot product, The Finch, has been given support on the Raspberry Pi. Here’s what they say about it on their site: The Finch is a new robot for computer science education. Its design is the result of a…
Programming Pi-Face with Java & Pi4J on #RaspberryPi
Robert Savage has published another of his Java/Pi4J articles. This time, he tackles the Pi-Face expansion board and provides some example code for those looking to use Java on the Raspberry Pi! Read his article here.
#RaspberryPi Python class for controlling 28BJY-48 stepper motor with ULN2003 board
Stephen Phillips has written an excellent piece of Python to control a 5V stepper motor from the Raspberry Pi. This worked first time for me and it’s formed the basis of a new project that I’ve unimaginatively called ‘stepper-pi’. The code for stepper-pi is…
Autonomous #RaspberryPi Tank… almost / @Raspberry_Pi
Ian Renton’s blog about building a Raspberry Pi-powered tank never ceases to amaze me. This time, it’s Raspberry Tank Day 25: The Beginnings of Autonomy. His tank takes on a cupboard and… well, you’ll have to read his blog to find…
OCR releases more #RaspberryPi resources for education / @Raspberry_Pi
A couple of weeks ago, I blogged that OCR had released a batch of rich, educational material for teachers to use in their ICT lessons. I’ve checked back this morning and they’ve doubled the number of documents available. The new…
#RaspberryPi using Scratch to control RC car over GPIO
Winkle Ink’s been tinkering with an old remote control car and a bunch of transistor based driver circuits. What he’s come out with is a remote control car that you can program from Scratch. It’s not the most precision control…
Interfacing #RaspberryPi with a Wiimote – additional info
Just a quick note… you can tell the Wiimote to report, and tell the Pi to read, the state of the accelerometer on the Wiimote so you can work out its orientation. Here’s a code snippet from the article: #set…