Someone over at Mikronauts has taken a Pi, a hexapod chassis and 18 servos and put together a Pi-controlled hexapod robot. It’s a great project, that probably cost quite a bit, but it looks fantastic.
4tronix gives an update on their Raspberry Pi robotics kit
Online retailer 4tronix has been working on a robotics kit for some months now and they’ve just provided an extensive update as to their progress. They’ve recently been featured on RasPi.Today and now Gareth has published a blog post telling us how they’re getting on with bringing the kit to market. The update includes pricing (£60+VAT for the full kit and £33+VAT for the ‘Lite’ version) and a full list of features. So head on over to the blog post to read more.
Assembly guide for the Pi Supply on/off switch for the Raspberry Pi
The Average Man has done a great assembly and set-up guide for the Pi Supply power on/off switch. You can read the guide here and you can purchase the on/off switch here.
August issue of The MagPi is out for Raspberry Pi owners
Issue 26 of The MagPi is now out. Features include:
- Introduction to the model B+.
- Robotics articles.
- Persistence-of-vision magic wand project.
- VoIP server.
- Beer brewing.
- Using BitScope.
- Programming with FuzeBASIC.
Element 14 webinar with Eben Upton about the Raspberry Pi Model B+
On Thursday I attended an Element 14 webinar with Eben Upton of the Raspberry Pi Foundation in which he talks about the Pi, the Compute Module and also introduces the model B+. He also fields questions from the audience. Element 14 has now posted up a recording of the session on their website which I’ve embedded below. It’s definitely worth listening to as Eben puts dates to various different upcoming things. If you want to read a summary of the session, go to this page on my blog.
Wearable computer users tracked by a Raspberry Pi
A group of researchers from Symantec took a Raspberry Pi, added a bluetooth receiver and then snooped on the data being broadcast from bluetooth-enabled wearable devices. The researchers went to busy public places in Switzerland and Ireland to see what data they could find and were amazed at the sheer volume being leaked out. They didn’t try and connect to any of the devices, just listened in on what they broadcast. Read more on the BBC news site or their own blog.