{"id":15596,"date":"2016-09-29T10:30:47","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T09:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15596"},"modified":"2016-09-29T06:59:27","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T05:59:27","slug":"kickstarter-for-terrific-robot-kit-featuring-raspberry-pi-arduino-and-loads-of-blinkies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15596","title":{"rendered":"Kickstarter for terrific robot kit featuring Raspberry Pi, Arduino and loads of blinkies!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Plum Geek<\/a> have previously launched<\/a>, and successfully funded a series of Arduino-powered robots on Kickstarter. Now, they’ve moved into the Raspberry Pi arena with the Spirit Rover<\/strong><\/a>. Inspired by the NASA\/JPL Mars Rover, the full kit features a custom circuit board hosting an Arduino and PIC, blinkies, a pan-and-tilt kit, a Raspberry Pi and accompanying camera module. It’s been designed to teach you about robotics, movement, visual tracking (using the camera) and object avoidance\/autonomous operation. The kit comes with a series of worksheets to teach and guide you and it all looks very well thought-out.<\/p>\n

Brace yourself, though, this lovely kit does come at a cost with Early Birds starting at $189 for the basic kit (with some of the components not included), and $289 for the “Fully Loaded” kit which includes the Pi and camera. As I say, not cheap, but you can see from the picture at the top of the page that it’s a\u00a0very<\/em> pretty robot and beautifully designed.<\/p>\n

You can see the (slightly over-long) campaign video below or take a look at the campaign and pledge levels here<\/a>.<\/p>\n