It’s been really hectic here over the last few days, as we’ve been busy moving into our new offices, but we’re finally in, and can now get back on with making robots.
Incubator sign
We’ve been lucky enough to secure a place in the new Technology Incubator that recently opened at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory. The Bristol Robotics Laboratory is one of the biggest and best robotics laboratories in Europe, and this move gives us much more space, and a much better environment for developing our new products.
Well, it’s taken us much longer than we would have liked, but finally, we’re pleased to announce the release of a brand new robot kit based around the popular Rover 5 chassis from Dagu. This robot kit combines the Rover 5 chassis, with a Seeeduino (an Arduino compatible controller board) to give you a complete robot with loads of great features. The kit is easy to assemble, and accessible for beginners, whilst providing the flexibility that more experienced robot builders need to build advanced robotic projects.
We’ve built this kit by combining components that we already sell in our store to create a complete robot. All the components have been selected and tested to ensure that they work well together, and we’ve written a manual describing step by step how to assemble the robot. We’ve also created sample code in the form of a wall following behaviour so that you can get up and running with the robot really quickly.
Back View
Buying the kit gives you a great saving compared to buying each of the components individually, but even if buying the kit is not for you, because you have some of the components already, we hope that the manual and sample code will provide some useful ideas for your own projects. Check the kit out here, and let us know what you think.
We’ve recently added some new products to our store. First up are a couple of new Arduino shields from Seeed Studio. We now stock their WiFi Shield and their Relay Shield, so now for almost any application, we probably have an Arduino Shield you can use.
Secondly, we’re pleased to announce that we now stock the BerryClip from our friends over at Raspberry Pi Spy. The BerryClip is a small affordable electronics kit that is a great project to get started with on the Raspberry Pi. It consists of LEDs, a switch and a buzzer, and provides a perfect introduction to both software and hardware interfacing.
The Pan/Tilt kit that we sell, developed by Dagu with the guys over at Let’s Make Robots, is a great way to mount mobile sensors on your robotic projects. In this tutorial we look at how you can control the Pan/Tilt kit with a Raspberry Pi and the Python programming language.
