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Alex Ellis<\/a> has written a lovely bare-bones tutorial over on GitHub that uses a Zumo robot kit and the Explorer pHAT, together with a Pi Zero, to create a robot that is sub-A6, which is the size you need to be to battle it out in Micro Pi Noon<\/a>. You can read the tutorial over at GitHub<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alex Ellis has written a lovely bare-bones tutorial over on GitHub that uses a Zumo robot kit and the Explorer pHAT, together with a Pi Zero, to create a robot that is sub-A6, which is the size you need to…<\/p>\n

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