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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If you caught my post about the third edition launching, you’ll know I wrote Learn Robotics Programming, Third Edition to help people move beyond robotics theory and actually build, program, and understand a working robot. more… -
17 Aug 2026 » Tidying up with hook and loop cable tiesWhen building robots, it’s not hard to get cables in a bit of a mess. more… -
Back in June I posted about the discount on Learn Robotics Programming, 3rd Edition. That deal is still running, and there is a nice bit of news to go with it: the book reached the top of the New Releases chart in Computer Hardware Peripherals on Amazon US again this week. more… -
16 Jul 2026 » Assembling the new 3D printer enclosure frameIn the last post I was planning a replacement for my 3D printer enclosure’s frame - swapping the fibreglass rods and plastic corners that the cat had cracked for zinc-alloy corner brackets and aluminium extrusion from ooznest.co.uk. The parts have now arrived, and it was time to build it. more… -
14 Jul 2026 » Rebuilding a 3D printer enclosure frameMy 3d printer has an enclosure, from Unitak. more… -
18 Jun 2026 » Rescuing Old Robot Code from the ArchivesOver the years I’ve accumulated a fair amount of robot source code — old projects in zip files, folders with broken .git histories, repos that were once on a long-gone GitLab instance. I’ve been working through these archives recently, using AI tooling to help analyse branches, spot untracked files, and work out what’s already on GitHub vs what needs a new home. more…