Robot News – Raspberry Pi 3!

This just in! Raspberry Pi launches model 3B, a nice upgrade from the 2B for the same price, with the same form factor, and the same connectors. So where’s the gain? It has an even beefier quadcore processor AND finally the RPi has on-board WiFi and Bluetooth! You know you want it!

Raspberry Pi 3 on sale now at $35

PS. Nice detail, this can be ordered in NL as from today: https://www.sossolutions.nl/raspberry-pi-model-3b read more...

Video – Pan/tilt demo time!

Just to break the current update hiatus (life happened), I thought I would post a video that I made a couple of weeks ago. Although this video demoes nothing more than two servomotors being driven by ServoBlaster running on my Raspberry Pi (yawn!), something “extra” happens in the interaction between lighting, music & the autofocus of my phone cam, which I believe make it worth the 27 seconds of your time. Just watch the video, OK? ? read more...

Camera? OK!

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Finally, I took some time to connect the camera! This required almost complete deconstruction, since the Raspberry Pi had to be dislodged in order to access the CSI to insert the new, longer, camera ribbon. Also, the camera unit needed to be turned 90 degrees to let the cable stick out the side of the robot’s head, so the head was disassembled as well. Anyway, here’s to the first time that FRAC is looking at itself! I have a feeling this might come in handy somehow…. read more...

Setting things up

It’s been some time since the last update, and that is not because I haven’t done any work on this project. Fact is, the work that I have been doing is not really going to do well as a party conversation starter…