At Orionrobots, Danny and his team build robots, electronics, gadgets and stuff that moves. We aim to make robots 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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Recent Posts
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12 Feb 2025 » Trying out Assemblies in FreeCAD 1.0.0I’ve been working on a robotics mentoring project for Coder Dojo KU. There will be a fleet of 10 of these robots. The current task is to model a sensor bracket that I can print for some RCWL-1601 ultrasonic distance sensors. more…
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I’ve been fixing up my Maplin/OWI Edge USB controlled robot arm. Here’s what I’ve been doing with it. more…
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04 Jan 2025 » Thanks to Github for fixing a problemMy python library for the Maplin USB robot Arm has been reasonably popular over the years. However, at one point several years ago, I wanted to move the repository from my dannystaple account into the orionrobots org, so other people in orionrobots, students or helpers, could contribute, review and so on. more…
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03 Jan 2025 » 2014 Attempt To Design A Custom Arduino ShieldThe old projects more…
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23 Dec 2024 » Investigating VScode + WSL as a MicroPython IDEI am a frequent user of Micropython. I also have recently been using a Windows desktop (I had been using a Mac for a while). more…
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04 Dec 2024 » Particle systems part 2 - The snowglobeIn the previous particle systems article we built a simple particle system that created raindrops. more…