Pi Wars – The TractorBot Story
A team from Ipswich Makerspace took their robot ‘TractorBot’ to Pi Wars 2014 in Cambridge. This is the story of how they got on.
A team from Ipswich Makerspace took their robot ‘TractorBot’ to Pi Wars 2014 in Cambridge. This is the story of how they got on.
Just in case you have not noticed the hype that is all over our corner of the internet, there is a new version of the Raspberry Pi, called the “B+”. I won’t bother going into detail about its features, that’s covered very well by many others including Adafruit, Gordon Henderson, Carrie-Ann Philbin and, of course, …
This is exciting. A Raspberry Pi Compute Module Development Kit (a.k.a “Model C”) arrived in the post today. At last I have a “Raspberry Pi” with a decent number of GPIO pins. Just as when the Original Pi launched, there is not much information or third-party support yet. In particular, I’d love to see a …
Over the last few days I have been reading quite a bit about the MoPi: Mobile and 24/7 Power for the Raspberry Pi. I have had an email conversation with Hamish Cunningham and seen it mentioned in several places. The Kickstarter campaign for this clever little board is coming to an end, so I thought …
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Just a quick post today to report that I want along to the Cambridge Raspberry Jam today. Many thanks to Michael Horne for arranging it! This was my first “jam”, so I was not sure what to expect. It turned out to be a kind of one-day conference, with a sequence of presentations separated by …
I’m still struggling to find time to write here, but I really am pretty excited about two new arrivals I picked up today. It’s fair to say that the first has been getting a lot of press recently: The second is more of a rarity. Following my comments a few months ago, and despite my …