Pi Wars publishes a guide to getting started with Raspberry Pi robotics

I’ve just finished updating a page on the Pi Wars website that should provide enough information for anyone to get started with Raspberry Pi robotics (and maybe even enter the competition!) It includes a list of things you need to build a robot, recommendations of kits to buy, a list of ‘skills videos’ from The Raspberry Pi Guy and details of an open source robot from Ipswich Makerspace. If anyone has any suggestions for adding to the page, please contact us and we’ll add it. We sincerely hope that this page will encourage more people to apply to enter Pi Wars and to get involved in robotics in general. Read the guide here.

2 comments for “Pi Wars publishes a guide to getting started with Raspberry Pi robotics

  1. Hello,
    I have made a few robots on my own – a line followers and object avoiders but after a while they all get rather boring.

    I would love to see a more complex autonomous robot using, say,cameras and/or Kinect 2 to be able to find onstacle and as an aid to look ahead route planning.
    Indoor “GPS” would be super, but a bit complicated.

    So a larger Chassis to take more HW (perhaps a bare bone PV for OPENCV and routing, RPi ‘s to take care of low level control
    with an Arduino.

    Just an Idea – if somewhat expensive. If perhaps a group of people would be interested then I would join.

    • The challenge is to get a robot that will do, for example, all the challenges in Pi Wars – i.e. line following, distance sensing/obstacle avoidance, ability to fight robot-on-robot etc, a speed course, robot skittles – all at the same time. The skill is in the programming and ability to set your robot up so that it can compete.

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