{"id":19375,"date":"2019-02-19T14:11:58","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T13:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=19375"},"modified":"2019-02-19T14:11:58","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T13:11:58","slug":"hacking-a-cute-six-legged-plastic-toy-with-a-raspberry-pi-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=19375","title":{"rendered":"Hacking a cute, six-legged plastic toy with a Raspberry Pi Zero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/zobbie.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-19376\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/zobbie.jpeg?resize=560%2C420&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/zobbie.jpeg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/zobbie.jpeg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/zobbie.jpeg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/zobbie.jpeg?resize=560%2C420&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/zobbie.jpeg?resize=260%2C195&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/zobbie.jpeg?resize=160%2C120&amp;ssl=1 160w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/zobbie.jpeg?w=1120&amp;ssl=1 1120w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/zobbie.jpeg?w=1680&amp;ssl=1 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>David Pride has taken a Tobbie robot toy and hacked it using some 3D-printed extra parts and a Raspberry Pi Zero. He&#8217;s used a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piborg.org\/motor-control-1135\/zeroborg-ks1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ZeroBorg from PiBorg<\/a>\u00a0as the motor controller and then 3D-printed a replacement head to house the Raspberry Pi Zero, the ZeroBorg, a Pi camera and a <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.pimoroni.com\/products\/blinkt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pimoroni Blinkt<\/a> for eyes. Predictably now called &#8220;Zobbie&#8221;, the robot now walks about (as you can see in the video below), is Pi-controlled and is just one of the cutest makes I&#8217;ve seen.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to do it yourself, search for Tobbie on eBay or Amazon and then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.piandchips.co.uk\/uncategorized\/zobbie-a-pi-zero-hexapod-for-everyone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">follow Dave&#8217;s walkthrough here<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/davejavu1969\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">His code<\/a>\u00a0<em>(this will be up later on tonight!)<\/em> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thingiverse.com\/thing:3436029\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the files for the 3D-printable head<\/a> are available online.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"When Zobbie met X-Bot - two Raspberry Pi robots\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mUtumVtfdMU?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>David Pride has taken a Tobbie robot toy and hacked it using some 3D-printed extra parts and a Raspberry Pi Zero. 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Philip Burgess wrote the code\u00a0which \"simulates physics by calculating collisions and terminal velocity\". 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