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Pimoroni: Excellence in Customer Service
The other day, I ordered some Raspberry Pi bits and pieces from my local supplier called SOSSolutions. Among the parts were a Raspberry Pi B V2 and a very fancy looking Pimeroni Pibow Coupé Ninja. I...
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Cool Kickstarter: RoboSnap
RoboSnap is a a very compact vision system for the RPi and EV3. It is based on the very popular PixyCam (CMUCam5) but in a much more compact package. Capable of much more than simply recognising...
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The people from OpenElectrons have started another Kickstarter Campaign. This time it’s an Arduino based robotics platform called the BumbleeBeeBot. The BumbleBeeBot has already been used in many...
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Released: ROBOTC 4.32
ROBOTC 4.32 is here and it includes a few new features and plenty of bug fixes and enhancements. Please note that if you use LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3, you must update the Linux Kernel to 1.07X, after...
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Coming Soon: OpenElectrons PiStorms
OpenElectrons are continuing their development of awesome stuff for the RPi. This new product, the PiStorms is a “shield” for the RPi that allows you to connect up to 4 EV3/NXT motors and up to 4...
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Clearance sale at Mindsensors.com!
If you’re looking to expand your collection of toys to play with or simply can’t pass up a good bargain, check out the clearance sale at Mindsensors.com! There’s a lot of stuff there, so go take a...
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New: Dexter Industries BrickPi+
Dexter Industries have released a new version of their very successful BrickPi, the BrickPi+. It sports quite a number of improvements over its predecessors: It now plays nice with EV3 sensors, that’s...
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Pixy Cam for MINDSTORMS
I’ve played around with various vision systems on the MINDSTORMS, even the Pixy Cam, using an adapter. However, now Charmed Labs have created a version of the super popular Pixy Cam that will work...
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Review: The Art of LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 Programming
There are many books out there for the budding robotics fan who wants to hone his or her programming skills. This is a book that fills that need very nicely. Terry Griffin’s “The Art of LEGO...
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EV3 Bricks: BLE or Blah?
A little while back, the Lejos forums were getting reports that some of the newly purchased bricks were having issues with Bluetooth connections. Andy Shaw, one of the main developers of this project,...
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PiStorms Challenge
So, you like Raspberry Pi but would prefer to build with LEGO? No problem! You can use the Mindsensors PiStorms to add a touch screen, buttons and motor and sensor ports to your Pi. The designs for...
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Improving ROBOTC Editor Readability
When I am doing development on ROBOTC, I find I am switching back and forth a lot between Visual Studio 2013 and the ROBOTC IDE. Personally, I prefer the font that VS2013 uses by default, which is...
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Self-hosted Blockly for PiStorms
The fine folks at Mindsensors have done something pretty cool! You’ve probably heard of Blockly, a very popular graphical programming language. In most cases, you had to run it on a remote website or...
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New EdBlocks Editor Released
I wrote about the Edison Kickstarter campaign a few years back, in 2014, in fact. The company is still going strong and are onto version 2.0 of their Edison robot. Recently, I was contacted by them to...
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RC HEXBUG Battle Spider
This is a project I’ve had on the shelf for quite some time (2 years or so), and only just now finished up. Ever since I saw these HEXBUG Battle Spiders, I’ve wanted to tear them apart and supply them...
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Resolving reset/flash issues with ODROID GO on macOS
I recently bought an ODROID GO to do some development on, and learn more about FreeRTOS. The ODROID GO is a small, handheld, Gameboy sized ESP32-WROVER based device. It is super cheap, about €45 or...
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RC2014, CP/M and xmodem on macOS
I recently started getting into retro computing, and got myself a Z180-based RC2014 compatible board, the SC126. It features an SD card adapter, which you can boot from, and store files on. On CP/M,...
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