Comments on: Building a Raspberry Pi Robot and Controlling it with Scratch – Part 1

By: Alan

Alan — Wed, 02 Apr 2014 08:33:26 +0000

Hi Lawrence,

Thanks for your interest. This is ongoing, but it’s slipped to more of a ‘it’ll be done when it’s done’ schecule, just because I’m not getting as much time to focus on it as I’d like.

Regards

Alan

By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Wed, 02 Apr 2014 07:30:44 +0000

Hi, is there any news on the kit & fuller tutorial being available?

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 10:46:37 +0000

Hi Rebekah,

Not a replica, just ‘inspired by’.

Regards

Alan

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 20:45:49 +0000

I would love to replicate it too!!

By: Rebekah

Rebekah — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 17:39:29 +0000

I am just starting to get into robotics and I am excited to make this but is it an exact replica of the mars rover or is it a bit different i know it is small.

By: Alan

Alan — Sun, 16 Feb 2014 14:17:47 +0000

Hi Umair,

Thanks for the comment. Glad you like the robot. This robot was a little bit thrown together for the workshop we taught, so what we’re planning to do is at some point provide a Raspberry Pi version of our Rover 5 Robot kit.

This is not too hard to do, the Raspberry Pi needs to be powered by a USB powerbank such as this one, but it can then be connected to the Seeeduino using the USB cable supplied in the kit. The open source software we wrote for the Raspberry Pi Camera Robot we sell can then be adapted to work with the Rover 5 robot.

Having said that it’s not too hard. It’s still probably going to take us at least a month and a half to release this kit, as, with so many things, it’ll take time, which we’re lacking at the moment.

Regards

Alan

By: Umair

Umair — Sat, 15 Feb 2014 16:17:31 +0000

Could you provide a more detailed construction of this pi robot? I would like to replicate it!

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Building a Raspberry Pi Robot and Controlling i... — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 21:44:32 +0000

[...] Last weekend we ran a workshop at the Digimakers event at @Bristol where we taught people how to program a Raspberry Pi robot with the Scratch programming language. It went really well, and it was amazing to see kids as young as 7 grasp the basics of robot control, and produce some really good control programs. Quite frankly, our careers are obviously in jeopardy once they reach the jobs market. This is the first in a series of posts where we describe the basics of how we built the robot, programmed it and put on the workshop. All of the workshop code, and the workshop worksheet can be found here if people are interested in recreating our work. [...]

By: Simon Walters

Simon Walters — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 20:40:04 +0000

Excellent