Dexter Industries have released a new version of their very successful BrickPi, the BrickPi+. It sports quite a number of improvements over its predecessors: It now plays nice with EV3 sensors, that’s very cool. It has better motor protection by adding a more powerful motor controller chip, which has improved back-EMF and overheating handling. You can keep track of your ...
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RoboSnap is a a very compact vision system for the RPi and EV3. It is based on the very popular PixyCam (CMUCam5) but in a much more compact package. Capable of much more than simply recognising colours, RoboSnap can also detect simple shapes like triangles, rectangles, circles. It can return provide size, location and colour for these objects, as well ...
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Dexter Industries have launched a Kickstarter project for the BrickPi! Become a backer and get one of these super cool shields for your Raspberry Pi. I wrote about the BrickPi not that long ago and I think this a really awesome addition to the Raspberry Pi ecosphere! As of writing this article, the project is at almost 25% of total ...
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The BrickPi is Dexter Industries latest project. It’s an interface board, or shield, for the super popular Raspberry Pi, a cheap ($25) and small but very powerful processor board that runs Linux. The BrickPi allows you to easily interface your NXT motors and sensors with the RasPi, without having to cut up cables or otherwise damage your precious LEGO parts. ...
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