Dawn Robotics Blog » Product Development http://blog.dawnrobotics.co.uk Tutorials and updates from Dawn Robotics Fri, 06 Nov 2015 12:42:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.11 Early Work on a Raspberry Pi Rover Kit http://blog.dawnrobotics.co.uk/2013/11/early-work-on-a-raspberry-pi-rover-kit/ http://blog.dawnrobotics.co.uk/2013/11/early-work-on-a-raspberry-pi-rover-kit/#comments Thu, 07 Nov 2013 19:32:01 +0000 http://blog.dawnrobotics.co.uk/?p=331 We’re going to be running a workshop at the forthcoming Digi Makers @ Bristol event showing people how they can control a robotic rover with Scratch. So we thought we’d share a picture of the Raspberry Pi robot we’ll be using for the event. The Dagu Explorer PCB which we use to drive the motors on […]

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]]> We’re going to be running a workshop at the forthcoming Digi Makers @ Bristol event showing people how they can control a robotic rover with Scratch. So we thought we’d share a picture of the Raspberry Pi robot we’ll be using for the event.

The Dagu Explorer PCB which we use to drive the motors on the Rover 5 chassis has a 5V voltage regulator which is rated at 1.5A so we can use that to provide power to the Pi. Not 100% sure yet how well it will cope with both WiFi and when the motors are running at 100%, but it seems very stable with the hardware we’re using for the workshop which is the Raspberry Pi camera and a bluetooth dongle.

Ideally we’d like to develop this into a full blown Raspberry Pi robot kit that we can sell alongside our Seeeduino/Arduino based robot kit, but we’re focussed on delivering a good workshop first. :)

Our expanding collection of Rover 5 robots

Our expanding collection of Rover 5 robots

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