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12.13.2018 :: 12:00PM EST Build Your Own Robots With These Starter Raspberry Pi Kits – Geek

12.13.2018 :: 12:00PM EST Build Your Own Robots With These Starter Raspberry Pi Kits   Geek The Raspberry Pi is renowned for its small size, powerful specs, and economical price. The uses of this versatile microcomputer are, in fact, almost limitless

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How to build a competiton-ready Raspberry Pi robot

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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Video: Smart Sensor Gives Vision to Arduino and Raspberry Pi Robots – Electronics360

Electronics360 Video: Smart Sensor Gives Vision to Arduino and Raspberry Pi Robots Electronics360 Charmed Labs has released the next generation of its Pixy smart vision sensor. The Pixy2 learns to detect objects that makers and developers teach simple robots to learn

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UK soldiers design Raspberry Pi bomb disposal robot

Three soldiers in the British Army have used a Raspberry Pi to build an autonomous robot, as part of their Foreman of Signals course. Meet The Soldiers Revolutionising Bomb Disposal Three soldiers from Blandford Camp have successfully designed and built an autonomous robot as part of their Foreman of Signals Course at the Dorset Garrison. Autonomous robots Forces Radio BFBS carried a story last week about Staff Sergeant Jolley, Sergeant Rana, and Sergeant Paddon, also known as the “ Project ROVER ” team.

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Robocod

Fishbowl existence is tough. There you are, bobbing up and down in the same dull old environment, day in, day out; your view unchanging, your breakfast boringly identical every morning; that clam thing in the bottom of the tank opening and closing monotonously – goldfish can live for up to 20 years. That’s a hell of a long time to watch a clam thing for.

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Kosovo’s First Pi Wars

British Engineer Andy Moxon recently contacted us to highlight a Pi Wars event he was organising in Kosovo. I write to inform you about an event I am running akin to Pi Wars, here in the newly independent country of Kosovo, South-East Europe

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Pi Wars 3.0

Here’s a guest post from our old friends Mike Horne and Tim Richardson . Come and join the fun at the next Pi Wars! Pi Wars is a challenge-based robotics competition in which every robot must be controlled by a Raspberry Pi. It’s great fun, and it will all be kicking off once again on 1st-2nd April 2017.

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Useless Duck Company

The Useless Duck Company’s very splendid videos, demonstrating some of their thoughtful and helpful Internet of Things applications, have been making us LITERALLY DIE WITH HAPPINESS (literally!) ever since we discovered them. Even better: we got in touch with the Chief Duck, and he let us know which of his inventions use a Raspberry Pi. Here are two of the most safe-for-work ones.

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