Welcome to Orionrobots
At Orionrobots, Danny builds robots, electronics, gadgets and stuff that moves. I get kids like my regular helpers Jonathan and Helena to join in, and occasionally others too. I aim to make some of the cool robotics things easy for anyone to build, and push the boundaries of what is easy. Oh and just to have lots of fun doing it too…
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Learn Robotics Programming - With my new book!
Danny Staple has just completed writing a book on making and programming a robot using a Raspberry Pi and Python. This robot has many sensors, including the camera which it uses to sense coloured objects and drive towards them, or faces which it can point its “head” at. You can drive the robot with your phone, make it avoid walls, follow lines and make a mycroft based voice assistant to control the robot by speaking.
Recent Posts
- 31 Aug 2019 » Connecting a MeArm to the Raspberry Pi
Building the Arm
more... - 23 Apr 2019 » Use OWI Edge Maplin USB robot arm with the Raspberry Pi
If you bought one of those cheap (£30) robot arms from Maplin a few years back (when there still was a Maplin) or find yourself in possession of one now, changes to Windows have made it feel like a bit of a paperweight.
more... - 09 Apr 2019 » Using The PiConZero with Learn Robotics Programming - Part 1
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When writing the book Learn Robotics Programming, I took the reader through choosing a motor controller, so they would be able to pick their own. I then made a recommendation for the Full Function Motor Hat - a motor hat available from Alibaba, eBay and Amazon from time to time. This hat is internationally available, but my preferred motor controller board, if you can purchase it is the 4Tronix PiConZero.
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Time to build your own robot! Using a Raspberry Pi with parts and some time, you can use my book to learn how to make and program a robot with automatic behaviours.
