Arduinos and Raspberry Pi are some of the things I like
This is a little late, found this write up about my time at the second Pi Wars event in 2015. Cue video of clocks running backwards and sound of ticking clocks! I started writing this post on the Tuesday after Pi Wars. This year’s contest was better in every way than last years, all credit … Read more
It’s only 7 days before I compete in the 3rd Pi Wars, things still left to do? lots! “Max” my robot has been an adventure in learning! So why is my team has the terrible pun “two wheels or not two wheels” for a name? After the winning Pi Wars with monster of a robot … Read more
Pi Wars is getting ever closer and I still have loads to do! One of the things I want to do was to get away from using the Pygame Python library for Joypad control, for a lighter weight solution and after searching around the web found Inputs. Inputs is a Python library by Zeth and … Read more
I have some spare tickets for the Raspberry Pi Party for one adult and 2 kids for Saturday & Sunday. I going to spilt the days so have two prizes. To win the tickets please tweet your dream design of the robot you would like to build, to @CannonFodder. You have until the weekend before … Read more
The next few months are going to be mad, with the Raspberry Pi Party and Pi Wars coming up. Progress is slowly coming along with MX1 (Max), my Pi Wars robot, the final design for chassis layout should be sorted, just need to choose which Pimoroni Hat to use as my display. At the same … Read more
It’s less than two months, to Pi Wars and current built status is that I have a chassis based on Tiny the robot, I designed for my MagPi robot magazine articles, but about double the size. I’m using i2c to add sensors for the line following, speed and maze challenges. I still have to develop … Read more
I should have been updating my blog with posts for Pi Wars, the last couple of months. However, I have been a little busy! If you picked up a copy of the MagPi last month, you would have seen my robot “Tiny” on the front cover. “Tiny” is designed to be able to compete in … Read more
The Raspberry Pi foundation have just released a new version of Raspbian, and is available form their download page for NOOBS or an image of Raspbian full fat or lite. One of the many new features is the easy set up of a network connection without even switching on your Pi and this is how … Read more
I thought with this post I would share with everyone how to build a sub A6 robot for the Micro Hi Noon contest, I running at the 4th Raspberry Pi weekend and will be bring along the arena to Makerfaires and Raspberry Pi jams this year . I have based the robot on the very … Read more
It’s only 15 days to the Raspberry Pi Birthday Party, and I have a mad idea for the party. PiWars was great fun, and Pi Noon was a great crowd pleaser, with the release of the Pi Zero, I think it would be great fun to have a micro version. So my mad idea is … Read more