With the recent announcement of the 2019 Pi Wars dates, we’ve collected some essential online resources to help you get started in the world of competitive robots. Robotics 101 Before you can strap chainsaws and flamethrowers to your robot, you need to learn some basics. Sorry.
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How to build a competiton-ready Raspberry Pi robot
Formula Pi is the latest Kickstarter project to come from PiBorg , the team responsible for the ZeroBorg motor controller, the wonderful DiddyBorg robot, plus a bunch of other wonderful Pi creations. We’re big fans.
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Formula Pi – the latest from PiBorg
On Saturday, something rather special happened in Cambridge. Tim Richardson and Mike Horne , who run the regular CamJam , were holding a special event: a robotics Raspberry Jam, with competitions for attending teams who had built their Pis into a robot. Eben and I were judging.
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PiWars – Cambridge Jam. With robots.
PiBorg are an organisation making add-on boards for your Raspberry Pi. Recently they produced the biggest and most powerful Pi robot we’ve seen so far, using one (six, actually) of their motor boards: the resulting DoodleBorg is a three-horsepower beast powered by motorcycle starter motors.
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DoodleBorg: a three-horsepower robot tank