{"id":12704,"date":"2015-06-03T14:37:14","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T13:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12704"},"modified":"2015-06-03T09:39:29","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T08:39:29","slug":"diddyborg-with-joystick-control-on-the-raspberry-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12704","title":{"rendered":"DiddyBorg with joystick control on the Raspberry Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-AIEQi9pyY1Y\/VWt7jBgvARI\/AAAAAAAAET8\/1IfPwIpPdX8\/s320\/P1070407.JPG?resize=320%2C214\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"214\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.piborg.org\/diddyborg\" target=\"_blank\">The Diddyborg from PiBorg<\/a> is a lovely, hard-wearing, speed robot. Richard Hayler has taken an old digital joystick he had lying around and hooked it up to a Slice of Pi prototyping board on the Pi so that the Diddyborg&#8217;s movement can be controlled. <a href=\"http:\/\/richardhayler.blogspot.co.uk\/2015\/05\/diddyborg-with-joystick-control.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more here<\/a>. Because we can never have enough robot action on this blog, here is some obligatory video footage of the Diddyborg in action:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"DiddyBorg in action\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wCDCVIp7jSs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Diddyborg from PiBorg is a lovely, hard-wearing, speed robot. 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