{"id":19599,"date":"2019-07-11T15:08:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T14:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=19599"},"modified":"2019-07-11T15:16:25","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T14:16:25","slug":"control-a-raspberry-pi-camjam-edukit-3-robotics-kit-using-two-microbits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=19599","title":{"rendered":"Control a Raspberry Pi \/ CamJam EduKit 3: Robotics kit using two micro:bits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/control_edukit_with_two_microbits.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19600\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/control_edukit_with_two_microbits.jpg?resize=560%2C460&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/control_edukit_with_two_microbits.jpg?w=610&amp;ssl=1 610w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/control_edukit_with_two_microbits.jpg?resize=300%2C246&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/control_edukit_with_two_microbits.jpg?resize=560%2C460&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/control_edukit_with_two_microbits.jpg?resize=260%2C214&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/control_edukit_with_two_microbits.jpg?resize=160%2C131&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Young programmer <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lukespademan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Luke Spademan<\/a> has built up a <a href=\"https:\/\/thepihut.com\/collections\/raspberry-pi-kits-and-bundles\/products\/camjam-edukit-3-robotics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CamJam EduKit 3: Robotics kit<\/a> and, after first of all using <a href=\"https:\/\/camjam.me\/?page_id=1035#worksheets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the excellent worksheets written by Tim Richardson<\/a>, then converted it so that the Raspberry Pi inside the box can be controlled by a pair of <a href=\"https:\/\/thepihut.com\/collections\/micro-bit-store\/products\/micro-bit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">micro:bits<\/a>. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/lukespademan.com\/blog.html#edukit3-microbit-control\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">read how he did it here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/gitlab.com\/lukespademan\/edukit3_microbit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">see the code on GitLab here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>I reckon there&#8217;s a way to control the Raspberry Pi over Bluetooth from the micro:bit, so I&#8217;ve asked Luke about it and will look further into it as I think this is an excellent control method using the accelerometer chip on the micro:bit to control direction.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Edit: Indeed, there\u00a0<em>is<\/em> a way to control the Pi over Bluetooth. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/uk_baz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Barry Byford<\/a> sent over <a href=\"https:\/\/ukbaz.github.io\/howto\/ubit_workshop.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this link<\/a> which you could add to Luke&#8217;s work to just use a single micro:bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young programmer Luke Spademan has built up a CamJam EduKit 3: Robotics kit and, after first of all using the excellent worksheets written by Tim Richardson, then converted it so that the Raspberry Pi inside the box can be controlled&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=19599\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19600,"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":[82,96,39,45,51],"tags":[379],"class_list":["post-19599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bluetooth","category-microbit","category-programming","category-robotics","category-tutorials","tag-camjam-edukit"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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