Arduino IDE with a Raspberry Pi Pico (or RP2040 based boards)

These are instructions for setting the Arduino IDE with a Pico / RP2040 NOTE: I already had the support board installed before writing this post, so some of this might be missing some steps. If anyone spots a problem, then let please me know. We'd like people to be able…

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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…

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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…

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UKMARSBOT for new constructors

In this presentation for new constructors and those interested in finding out more about building a UKMARSBOT, Ian explains the design objectives and how they were achieved in the hardware and circuit designs and gives practical advice and tips for the construction. A block diagram showing the elements of line…

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