The fine folks at Mindsensors have done something pretty cool! You’ve probably heard of Blockly, a very popular graphical programming language. In most cases, you had to run it on a remote website or on your own computer and download whatever code you created to your robot. Well, with the PiStorms you no longer have to! Because it’s based on ...
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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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OpenElectrons are continuing their development of awesome stuff for the RPi. This new product, the PiStorms is a “shield” for the RPi that allows you to connect up to 4 EV3/NXT motors and up to 4 EV3/NXT sensors. It has a screen on it and can be programmed using a Python API. The RPi communicates with the PiStorms shield through ...
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The other day, I ordered some Raspberry Pi bits and pieces from my local supplier called SOSSolutions. Among the parts were a Raspberry Pi B V2 and a very fancy looking Pimeroni Pibow Coupé Ninja. I noticed the lettering was a bit deeper and slightly less clear than my red Coupé, which I had purchased previously, but it was nothing ...
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Inspiration struck me the other day and I’ve come up with a new project. I’m going to use a Raspberry PI for it, since I am such a fan of Linux, to make a remote control for the EV3. It’s going to use an IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit) to control the WiFi connected robot. I ordered the list of component ...
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