Brian Corteil, one of the competitors in this year’s Pi Wars competition, has done a great round-up of the remote control options available to you when you build a robot. He goes through each option and gives pros and cons for each, as well as providing links for most of them which should help you get going. Read it here. This acts as a great companion piece to my guide to getting started over on the Pi Wars site.
Since March, the Astro Pi package, that will go onto the International Space Station, has been undergoing a series of rigorous tests to demonstrate it’s space-worthiness. Dave Honess has blogged over at the Foundation about exactly what it’s been through over the past few months to get it ready for launch. Read it here.
Very shortly, several high altitude balloons will be launched from a location in Cambridgeshire by the folks from the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s Skycademy. You can track them on HabHub. Look out for RPF-named trackers.
You can follow Twitter traffic by searching for #skycademy.
You can also see (I think!) the live transmitted photos from the balloons at SSDV.
A few people asked me to do this, so I thought why not?
I recently posted a review of the Pimoroni PianoHAT and I asked if people wanted to see a video demo of the board and it’s capabilities. Well, here you go. It’s a little long and I should’ve edited it down a bit, but you can see the board running examples and get a feel for the functionality and the quality of the sound samples included. Let me know what you think and if you’d like to see more video demos.
Apologies in advance for the sound – I was recording using my mobile phone, so what you get is what you get!
Finland-based Patrick Aalto has been working this summer on a two-wheeled balancing robot powered by a Raspberry Pi. On 16th August, he achieved his first successful balancing. You can see a video of it below:
He’s blogged about the build and his approach to the programming and you can read that here.
As the headline says, the next Jam will be on 26th September. It runs from 1-4pm and is taking place in a brand new venue: on the Park Campus of the University of Gloucestershire. You can get free tickets here and find out more about the Jam on their website.
