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DIY kits & challenges
Welcome
Following its huge success last
year, Pi Wars is back again this
December. In case you missed
it, the Cambridge Raspberry
Jam organised an amazing event that saw
people bringing in their home-made robots
and then taking on a number of challenges
designed by the Pi Wars organisers, including
speed and power tests, obstacle courses, a
three-point turn test and more. It was huge
fun and we’re excited for Pi Wars 2015 – and
if you want to get involved too, we’re here to
help. Check out this month’s feature to find six
brilliant robotics kits, each one put to the test
with a new challenge that you can download
the code for. And if you do decide to take your
robot down to Cambridge, send us a photo!
Get inspired
Discover the RasPi
community’s best projects
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Contents
Raspberry Pi robots
6 kits tested and 6 challenges coded
What is a Raspberry Pi robot?
We define the Pibot once and for all
Print wirelessly with your Pi
Connect to your printer over your network
Host your own website
No need to pay for web hosting any more
Pi Glass
Secret to the DIY Google Glass revealed
Talking Pi
Your questions answered and your opinions shared
Raspberry Pi robots
Discover the best robotics kits around and
learn to program them with your Pi
The rise of our robot overlords is well
underway – give it another five years and
we’ll all be watched over by Pi-powered
machines of loving grace. In the meantime, though,
we’ve rounded up the very best DIY robotics kits
available to buy right now that are designed to work
with your Raspberry Pi, so you can get a head start on
the inevitable revolution. Whether they’re Arduino or
Raspberry Pi-based, we’re getting all of our robots to
listen to our master Pi controller and showing you how
to do the same with your kit. We’ll also be scoring these
robotics kits to identify their strengths and weaknesses
in terms of their build quality, functionality out of the
box, the construction process and of course their
programmability, to help show you which kit is right for
you and where you can get hold of your own.
And what then? Well, we thought we’d put our
robots to the test with a series of challenges inspired
by the Cambridge Raspberry Jam’s Pi Wars event
(www.piwars.org) – a line-following challenge, a
proximity alert test, a tricky obstacle course and a three-
point turn examination. Not content to stop there, we
also got one of our robots to play a fine round of golf and
another two to battle each other (sumo style).
So it’s time to introduce you to our hand-picked
team of robots – over the next few pages you’ll meet
Rapiro, our most humanoid and delightfully articulate
Gundamesque robot; GoPiGo and Pi2Go, two nippy little
two-wheel tricars with ball-bearing casters for stability at
the rear; Frindo, the sensor-loaded, open source mobile
robotics platform; Rover 5, the rugged two-track tank
with a Seeeduino brain and an inexorable top speed of
1km/s; and Hexy, the six-legged, crab-walking, Thriller-
dancing (http://bit.ly/1lj2CqR) force of robotic nature.

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