Ryan Walmsley has taken an old claw machine and retro-fitted a Raspberry Pi to control it. A custom controller board (pictured below) gives him 2 dual H-bridges to drive the three motors on the X, Y and Z axis and some…
The GoPiGo 3 is the newest iteration of Dexter Industries‘ robotics kit. The US-based company was kind enough to send me one over for review a few weeks ago and I’m pleased to say I’ve now put it together and…
Following a successful Kickstarter, Mime Industries are now starting to deliver their interesting robotic arm kit, the MeArm Pi, an update to their previous MeArm. The new kit comes with a HAT to control the arm via two mini joysticks…
pi-top, the creators of the World’s first commercial Raspberry Pi laptop and the desktop version, the pi-topCEED, have just announced that they have re-designed their most famous product – itself called the pi-top. This laptop, which is powered by a…
Alex, over at RasPi.TV, has done an excellent overview of Pi Supply’s Pi Juice battery-on-a-HAT product. He’s put the battery through its paces and also tested out the solar panels. There’s a video review and also notes on his blog…
Recently, Jamie over at The Pi Hut sent me one of his new PS3-style controllers. I had a play, liked it and soon adapted Tom Oinn’s great Python ‘input’ library to accept commands from the controller. I also adapted one of Tom’s…
Alex Eames over at RasPi.TV is the first of us reviewers to get his hands on the new PiJuice from Pi Supply. Alex has been sent a sample unit of the PiJuice itself plus a couple of solar panels and…
I’ve just noticed that The Pi Hut has just put on sale the Google AIY Voice Kit. This kit, which is the offspring of the famous MagPi issue 57, costs £25 and contains everything you need to put together your…
Richard Hayler recently acquired a new pet snake which he’s called The Kernel. The Kernel is housed inside a tank and Richard wanted to monitor the temperature and humidity of the environment. So, he used a DS18B20 waterproof temperature sensor (like…
Back in March 2017, Alex Eames ran a Kickstarter for RasPiO InsPiRing, a system that enabled you to ‘sculpt lights with RGB LED shapes’. TL;DR – I got the Pyramid bundle in the Kickstarter, had great fun soldering it up and…
