Was it a silly idea at the last minute to add an Pi Cam to capture FPV videos of each of the challenges? Short answer
Was it a silly idea at the last minute to add an Pi Cam to capture FPV videos of each of the challenges? Short answer
There is less than a week until The Pi Wars Hand In has to be complete! On the weekend, we realised that we had not
With time short and the unheard of concept of KISS [Keep It Simple Stupid]. Seriously what’s the point of being an engineer if you cant
As a completely frivolous addition to the robot we wanted it to “talk”. By talk we mean issue Lemming sound effects! Previous jobs involved adding
Its a Lemming, so needed a head to go along with the arm. The game from the early 90’s on the Amiga and the associated
One of the challenges that up until this point we weren’t able to complete is Hungry Cattle. Its time to put that right! I started
In order to have the robot issue rousing Lemming quotes while we perform the challenges we needed an amp and speaker for the Pi. We
Last Weekend, we made an amplifier, so we can add lemming sound effects. You might be thinking that adding Lemming Sound Effects IS NOT the
With the wooden part of the arena built (minus the walls), it still doesn’t look like a proper arena. Each of the squares in the
Yesterday, as the weather was nice, (not the predicted rain – yay!), I spray-painted the 3 sheep that are already printed, and the 3 Troughs
For me and Toby, it is the Easter holidays. This means that we can spend more time on the robot. So, after a long discussion
This is a post about how we made our arena. Sadly, it does not look quite as cool as the image below: 2 Weeks Ago…
Where are we? We have printed 3 of the 6 sheep and all 3 wolves. At first, I created a solid block with the dimensions
Where are we? As soon as Toby built the tree we thought it looked like the Christmas tree so we decided to make it into
We are at a point where models now exist for all the challenge objects. These are uploaded in their own page here. Three versions of
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