GPIO boards, Programming, Robotics

New Motor Controller Board Kit for the #RaspberryPi

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Ryanteck Raspberry Pi Motor Controller Board Kit from Ryanteck LTD. | Tindie

Ryan Walmsley, the programmer behind rastrack.co.uk, co-editor of Pi Weekly and organiser of the Stevenage Raspberry Jam has moved into the hardware arena with his Motor Controller Board. The budget-priced board is designed to do one thing, and do it well. It will run two DC motors at 0.5A each (or 1 motor at 1A) with 4.5-12V of power. The motors can be programmed to run in either direction and software PWM can be used to control speed.

He’s decided to run this through Tindie and the board can be got for $20, delivered (which is about £12.50, a very good price for a budget board). It does need some soldering, but looking at the board I can’t see anything being too complicated.

If you want something like this, please support Ryan. He’s done a lot for the Pi community and this young man deserves our support.

Read more about the board and get one on Tindie here

Here’s a rather shaky video of the board in action:

Camera module, Programming, Software, Video

3D scanner made up of 40 #RaspberryPi boards and cameras

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Multiple Raspberry PI 3D Scanner

Richard has developed a 3D scanner using the Pi and the camera module… actually, 39 of them! He’s created an Instructable and also set-up a website specifically for the project. He recently took it to the Maker Faire in Groningen, Netherlands where he scanned over 200 people. Here’s a video of that appearance and some of the results. Truly outstanding work.