Simple Maze Tile Manufacture
In this presentation Ken Hewitt explains an ingeneous way to manufacture accurate tiles for maze construction using a minimum set of tools. Maze Tile Construction
Remote Control your Robot from an Android Phone
In December's robot club video call David Hannaford shared an update on his presentation from Minos showing how to add remote control to your robot using an Android phone. The approach uses the MIT App Inventor software to build the software for the phone and sketch code on the Arduino…
Introducing Git
Git is a revision control system developed by Linus Torvalds. it is capable of distributed working with the ability to support collaboration between multiple developers and teams. It is lightweight, robust, widely used and supported and, perhaps most important, open source and free.
Powering The Pi Zero on UKMARSBOT
In this month's presentation, Ian Butterworth describes how he managed to fit a Raspberry Pi Zero to the UKMARSBOT while ensuring that there is enough power for everything. UKMARSBOT was designed to have a replaceable processor. What we didn't think of was adding a Raspberry Pi Zero as a supervisory…
UKMARSBOT Mazerunner
The UKMARSBOT robot was designed from the start to be a good training robot for aspiring micromouse developers. In this month's presentation, Peter Harrison describes some of the important considerations and features needed in the code that controls a micromouse. All the code that is described can be downloaded from…
Bluetooth LE
You will have heard of Bluetooth. You will almost certainly have also heard of Bluetooth LE (BLE). Ever wondered about the difference? Want to know more? In this months online meeting, Rob Probin gives a bit of background on Bluetooth, describes some of the features of BLE, tells us how…