Known Issues

Power Supply/ Battery

Please use fully charged five Ni-MH batteries. If the charging of batteries is incomplete, servos does not work correctly with noise-Twitching issue (caused by your batteries) Usually, Alkaline batteries do not have enough power to run all 12 servos. Please use Ni-MH batteries, for example eneloop and Energizer Recharge.

It has been tried with normal AA batteries but was impossible to make RAPIRO run.

Arduino Sketch limitation

Raspberry Pi GPIO connection

Disable Serial Console

see more information on the official raspberry pi forum. Long story short, when the pi boots, its sends data on the GPIO, some of them are connected to the rapiro don't play well with each other..

and with that script, you can easily enable or disable the serial console.

installing the script

just copy and paste this line into you terminal console

    sudo wget https://raw.github.com/lurch/rpi-serial-console/master/rpi-serial-console -O /usr/bin/rpi-serial-console && sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/rpi-serial-console

the script is now installed on your PI.

commands

• status
  • rpi-serial-console status
• enable
  • sudo rpi-serial-console enable
• disable
  • sudo rpi-serial-console disable