A maker called msana has posted his latest project in Hackster.IO. It is a robot, based on a 3D printer, with a Raspberry Pi & camera module attached. The camera takes a photo of a Sudoku puzzle placed on the print…
The organisers of Pi Wars (that’ll be me and Geeky Tim!) have just announced the possibility of a 2018 competition! Currently, we’re trying to gauge interest and find out how many teams are likely to enter. Rules will be similar…
James West‘s son is a big Doctor Who fan. So, his dad decided to build him a classic series-inspired K9 toy. He purchased some acrylic sheets and some other material and then fitted inside a Raspberry Pi Zero W with…
Shashank Sharma and his team have developed a backpack to aid visually-impaired users. The backpack, called BackMap, uses an app to input the location you’re trying to get to and then Raspberry Pi-powered motors attached to the straps vibrate to tell…
Sean Hegarty has been in touch about a new HAT-format board that he and his company (CNC Design Ltd) have released for the Raspberry Pi. It allows clean, fast and accurate pulses to be created using simple ASCII commands. This is…
At Pi Wars, Coretec‘s Brian Corteil showed off his new robotics kit – the Tiny 4WD – on the Obstacle Course. Here’s a video of it in action: You can now get hold of a kit for this lovely little robot…
Ingmar Stapel has written several tutorials concerning differential GPS positioning using the RTK library. He’s brought it all together for Hackster.io in the process of developing his robot, Big Bob (pictured above). That’s enough to give you nightmares! Take a look…
At the Pi Party, the lovely people from Pi Borg turned up with an ickle, tiny, tiny robot called BoB, aka The Bot of Bits. Made from a Raspberry Pi Zero and a Zumo Chassis, together with their new Thunderborg…
Mark Norwood is a beginner at hacking and making, so he says, but that hasn’t stopped him from taking on this project to take an off-the-shelf robot spider and control it from a Raspberry Pi. He took two of the spider…
With Pi Wars coming up this weekend, I thought I’d share with you a post from Raspberry Pi magazine The MagPi about the GeRo, a humanoid robot that is controller by a Pi. German inventor Johannes Jaegers took inspiration from the Rapiro…
