{"id":18116,"date":"2018-01-19T16:18:24","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T15:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18116"},"modified":"2018-01-19T16:18:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T15:18:24","slug":"converting-a-chinese-digger-toy-to-use-a-raspberry-pi-zero-and-ps3-controller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18116","title":{"rendered":"Converting a Chinese digger toy to use a Raspberry Pi Zero and PS3 controller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/digger.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18117\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/digger.jpg?resize=560%2C316&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/digger.jpg?w=1251&amp;ssl=1 1251w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/digger.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/digger.jpg?resize=768%2C433&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/digger.jpg?resize=1024%2C577&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/digger.jpg?resize=560%2C316&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/digger.jpg?resize=260%2C147&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/digger.jpg?resize=160%2C90&amp;ssl=1 160w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/digger.jpg?w=1120&amp;ssl=1 1120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Australian John Graves has a 5-year old son who loves to play with construction toys. So, John has taken a <a href=\"https:\/\/darkwater.io\/product\/640-dc-motor-control-board\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dark Water 640 motor controller board<\/a>, which allowed him to control all 6 motors on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.banggood.com\/HuiNa-Toys1550-15Channel-2_4G-112RC-Metal-Excavator-Charging-RC-Car-p-1023377.html?rmmds=search&amp;cur_warehouse=CN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Digger Toy<\/a> at once, and a Raspberry Pi Zero to create a new control mechanism. He&#8217;s then paired a PS3 controller to the Pi over Bluetooth and <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/gravesjohnr\/RemoteControlDigger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">written some code<\/a>\u00a0to tie everything together. He later added LEDs and a Pi camera to the toy, just for fun. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/convert-rc.blogspot.co.uk\/2017\/12\/digger-ps3-convert.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">read all about how John did it over on his blog<\/a>\u00a0and see a video of the final test below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Digger Final Test\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I8nP1Pc1rOU?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>Australian John Graves has a 5-year old son who loves to play with construction toys. So, John has taken a Dark Water 640 motor controller board, which allowed him to control all 6 motors on a Digger Toy at once,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18116\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[54,80,20,50,45],"tags":[617,387],"class_list":["post-18116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accessories","category-blinkies","category-gpio-boards","category-making","category-robotics","tag-digger","tag-toy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Converting a Chinese digger toy to use a Raspberry Pi Zero and PS3 controller - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18116\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Converting a Chinese digger toy to use a Raspberry Pi Zero and PS3 controller - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Australian John Graves has a 5-year old son who loves to play with construction toys. 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