Pi Borg, the Cambridgeshire-based robotics specialist, has just launched their latest Kickstarter, and it’s a bit of a monster! There are two parts to the campaign (both of which are pictured above): the ThunderBorg motor controller and the MonsterBorg four-wheeled…
Category: Robotics
Pi Wars – the untold story – find out more about the Raspberry Pi robotics challenge competition
As I’m sure most of you know, myself and Tim Richardson run an event called Pi Wars which is a Raspberry Pi Robotics Challenge Competition. Well, over on the DesignSpark Raspberry Pi Tech Hub, I’ve written a fairly lengthy piece about the…
Pimoroni Pan-Tilt HAT review from Raspberry Pi magazine The MagPi
Over at The MagPi, they’ve posted a review of the Pimoroni Pan-Tilt HAT. It’s an add-on board kit for the Raspberry Pi which comes with the HAT itself, two servos and an articulated arm that sits on top of the…
New MeArm Pi for the Raspberry Pi is a real attention grabber
A couple of years ago, Ben Gray ran a highly successful Kickstarter campaign for the MeArm – a robotic arm. Now, he’s teamed up with Ben Pirt to form Mime Industries. They are now running their own Kickstarter for the next…
Formula Pi laser timing rig using a Raspberry Pi – find out how it was done
Recently, robotics designer, manufacturer and retailer Pi Borg ran the first Formula Pi competition. For the competition, the used a laser timing rig to record the exact lap times of each robot. They also used a similar method at Pi…
Raspberry Pi used as a Rubik’s Cube solving machine
Francesco Georg has used a Raspberry Pi, a Camera Module, LEGO bricks, some EV3 motors and a BrickPi add-on board to create this Rubik’s Cube solving robot. He figured out how to use a two-phase algorithm developed by Herbert Kociemba via a…
Wizarding World / Internet of Things clock using a Raspberry Pi
Pat Peters from Omaha, Nebraska has taken inspiration from the Wizarding World’s famous Weasley Clock and built his own Internet of Things clock, using a Raspberry Pi (a B+ in this case). Tracking the locations of both himself and his wife,…
Robotic Raspberry Pi-driven bomb squad for developing countries
A team from Villanova University, Philadelphia, comprised of four faculty and more than twenty-five students, has developed a ‘bomb squad’ robot. The robot is intended to be used in developing countries to deal with explosive devices and uses a Raspberry Pi…
Build your own fixed-wing drone with a Raspberry Pi Zero
Iker Zubi has written up instructions for building a fixed-wing drone using a Zero and the PXFmini add-on board. There’s a bill-of-materials and pictures of the build at each stage. He reckons the whole thing comes to about $150 (although…
Tea bag dunker uses a Raspberry Pi and an old CD drive
This made me giggle. 
Andrey Chilikin has come up with a way of automating the tea brewing process by pressing into action an old CD/DVD drive and a Raspberry Pi. They use GPIO to trigger the motor on the drive…