Welcome to Orionrobots

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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  30 Nov 2023 » Robotics building - A month of learning the hard way

  This month I managed to break two items - a motor bracket and a Raspberry Pi Pico W. more…
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  28 Nov 2023 » 3D Printing a replacement part for the Sparkfun Shadow Chassis

  This week I’ve been taking photos of a Sparkfun chassis I have been using with my student, and for demonstration purposes. more…
• 21 Nov 2023 » Robotics touch sensors mimicking fingerprints

  Today, I came across a paper detailing some interesting robotics sensor technology. more…
• 21 Nov 2023 » Open Source Python Robotics Algorithms on GitHub

  I was sent a link to a GitHub repository with a number of robotics algorithms implemented in Python.PythonRobotics more…
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  20 Nov 2023 » Managing a Raspberry Pi with PyInfra

  Today, I trialled PyInfra2 for managing the packages and files on a Raspberry Pi. more…
• 19 Nov 2023 » MQTT Mosquitto Password Issues

  I’ve recently started playing with MQTT. My intent is to use it in Python, with the Paho client, on a Raspberry Pi running the Mosquitto broker. I plan to use MQTT in my Piwars 2024 robot so I can have multiple communicating programs, and a channel to send control signals to/from a smartphone too. more…

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