Tony DiCola has written a tutorial for the Adafruit Learning System in which he uses a Pi and a camera module, together with a nice wooden box and servo, to create a box which only opens if it recognises the…
Category: Robotics
Thoughts on #RaspberryPi PiWars from Darren Christie
CamJammer Darren Christie has written an excellent blog post on why people should get involved with the PiWars robotics competition in Cambridge in December. Read it here.
#RaspberryPi Robotics talk from the Raspberry Jamboree
Here’s Matt Timmons-Brown talking about robotics on the Raspberry Pi from the Manchester Jamboree. It was a good talk and he’s a great speaker – definitely worth 10 minutes of your time to listen 🙂
Budget robot kit for the #RaspberryPi just launched
Ryan Walmsley, creator of Rastrack and co-editor of Pi Weekly (and constant CamJam attendee!), has had a great success with his RTK motor controller board and has now branched out into a full beginners robot kit. The kit includes almost…
Doctor Who fan starts creating a K9 with a #RaspberryPi
Image copyright BBC. No infringement intended. Doctor Who fan William Reichardt decided that he wanted to do an electronics project that would bring together a Raspberry Pi and an Arduino. Being the Whovian he is he decided to recreate the Doctor’s…
PiWars – #RaspberryPi robotics competition – Coming in December 2014
At the February Cambridge Raspberry Jam, we announced “PiWars”. PiWars will be a challenge-based robotics competition for wheeled robots to be held in Cambridge on 6th December. Categories will include, for instance, a speed challenge, a maze navigation challenge and…
DoodleBorg – the #RaspberryPi tank
We saw this at the Cambridge Raspberry Jam last Saturday. It’s huge, it’s heavy and it’s controlled by a Raspberry Pi. It is 65kg of robot and uses 6 of PiBorg‘s new robotics board, the PicoBorg reverse, to drive 6…
Turn your #RaspberryPi into a wireless access point
I know I’ve covered this sort of thing before, but it’s always good to have as many tutorials as possible on a subject. In this case, Gary Sims from MakeTechEasier has written a tutorial on configuring your wifi adapter to…
PWM dimming of an LED on the #RaspberryPi
A father-and-daughter team wants to control servo motors using PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) on the Raspberry Pi. As a demonstration of how possible this is, they’ve started out by using PWM with an LED to fade it up and down.…
Control a LEGO motor with a #RaspberryPi and a Gertboard
Karl Herrick has taken a Gertboard and a 4.5v LEGO motor and linked them up to the Pi. He’s then looked at Alex Eames’ Python Gertboard suite and written some test scripts as a proof-of-concept. Read about how he did…