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2014

Building Things with Raspberry Pi

<time datetime="2014-03-16 00:00:00 &#43;0000 UTC">16 March 2014</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">&middot;</span><span>83 words</span>
Hardware Raspberry Pi
Over the weekend I helped a friend out developing a kiosk video player based on Raspberry Pi.

Rover in Action

<time datetime="2014-02-21 00:00:00 &#43;0000 UTC">21 February 2014</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">&middot;</span><span>61 words</span>
Hardware Raspberry Pi YouTube Solenix Peanbot

I’m working at a software company. One of our side projects is the integration of new control concepts and input devices to robotic control.

We’ve integrated a couple of input devices and can control different rovers. One of them is the one I built.

2013

Raspberry Pi Pulling the Plug

<time datetime="2013-11-28 00:00:00 &#43;0000 UTC">28 November 2013</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">&middot;</span><span>421 words</span>
Hardware Raspberry Pi GPIO Power

While browsing for different breakout boards for the Rover I’ve discovered a nice little board that has a push button and logic pin to control a MOSFET.
This little contraption allows switching on and off the power, say through a USB cable.

Using the Motor Controller

<time datetime="2013-11-26 00:00:00 &#43;0000 UTC">26 November 2013</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">&middot;</span><span>560 words</span>
Hardware Rover

The Raspberry Pi has only a single PWM output. The Dagu Rover 5 chassis has 4 motors and 4 optical encoders that need reading as well. So my approach was to get a PWM servo/logic controller that could control the Dagu Motor Controller and additionally some servos for the camera pan/tilt.