In 2016, Edinburgh-based Robotical introduced their robotic platform, Marty the Robot. Successfully funded through a Crowdfunding campaign, the robot has now been updated to version 2, via another successful campaign, and is now available to buy from their online shop.…
Category: Robotics
Drive servos, steppers, DC motors and solenoids with the Raspberry Pi Pico and CircuitPython with this great guide from Adafruit
Adafruit have produced some exceptional tutorials/guides over the years and it appears that they are doing a sterling job on new guides for the Raspberry Pi Pico. Their latest guide shows you to how to hook up a Raspberry Pi…
Decentralized robotic fish – swarming and swimming with the Raspberry Pi Zero
Researchers from the Self-organizing Systems Research Group at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have created a swarm of robotic fish that can behave and adapt just…
Pi Wars 2021 – Online Conference tickets now on sale! – Event is on 23rd & 24th January
The Pi Wars team is delighted to announce that tickets for our 2021 Online Conference are now available. They are free but everyone viewing the Conference must have one. That’s one per device watching. You will need to register for the Hopin.to…
Build your very own Stargate with a Raspberry Pi
Kristian Tysse loves the show Stargate SG:1 (he has good taste!). On that show, teams of “off-world” explorers use a device called the Stargate to travel to other planets, some of which are similar to our own, some of which…
4tronix Bit:Commander for the micro:bit – a quick review this evening!
Fresh from the post comes a great controller for the micro:bit from 4tronix – the Bit:Commander. It’s baking hot up in the office, so I’m just going to do a quick review and my thoughts on it. The micro:bit plugs…
Create a London Eye model and turbine station with a micro:bit
This is lovely and also a great micro:bit resource. The folks over at Kitronik have written a detailed explanation of how to build this great London Eye and turbine station model over on their blog. It uses their All-in-One Robotics…
Building your first robot with the micro:bit – a new tutorial from @raspibotics
Getting started with robotics is always tricky. For Raspberry Pi robotics, I always point people at the Pi Wars Hints and Tips guide. For micro:bit, however, you might find this guide a great place to start to build the robot…
Building a quadruped robot using a Raspberry Pi 4 (and approx $900!)
A group of students at the Stanford University Student Robotics group have developed a lightweight, open source quadruped robot design. They’ve called it the Pupper and it runs from a Raspberry Pi 4. The cost for the Pupper is between $600…
Robotics presentation from Preston Raspberry Jam – script and slides
Hi everyone. I’ve just given a talk on getting into robotics at the Preston Raspberry Jam and I promised I would publish the notes and slides. They’re both PDFs and should, if I’ve done it right (!), include plenty of…