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I know this post is rather late but WE WON! Well, we won the Advanced Category that is. You could have knocked us over with a piece of heat shrink. Here’s our very lovely trophy… We want to say a massive thank you to everyone who made Pi Wars possible, especially Mike & Tim: weContinue reading “OMG! We came first!”

PiDrogen has been completely designed using fusion 360. We created this render for the programme submission. We are really pleased with how it looks so wanted to share it with you. At the moment it is not sporting PiDrogen team colours but we don’t want to give too much away at this stage!

Things have been quiet on the blog front from team PiDrogen. So, since we are snowed in, what better opportunity for an update? Well the blog has been quiet because we’ve been coding just as fast as we can. 😀 We’ve developed a peripheral controller based on an Arduino Due. Here’s the breadboard version: TheContinue reading “Hello again”

On Friday, the Team took a trip to the House of Marbles in Bovey Tracey, Devon.  The plan?  To test the performance of PiDrogen 1’s skid steer, 4 wheel drive chassis against PiDrogen 2’s tracks in a Marble Pit. Here’s a quick video of how it went….

Today was the culmination of the Sidmouth Science Festival and Team PiDrogen entered the rocket car contest: It’s kinda difficult to get a good video of a rocket car, but here goes: And we’re really chuffed to announce that we won the “pre-built” category with a time of 1.35 seconds, upholding our win from lastContinue reading “PiDrogen3 blasts Sidmouth”

We’ve made a lot of progress today: We’ve designed a new and (hopefully) improved back axle component, cut it on the Exeter Fab Lab laser cutter and fitted it.  So we now have a fully functional PiDrogen1. Then we paired the radio control transmitter we borrowed from a friend to PiDrogen2.  So now we canContinue reading “We flyin!”

The good news is that Nathy has been doing some driving practice in preparation for tomorrow’s “marble test” at the House of Marbles. The bad news is that PiDrogen1 has suffered a structural failure: The back axle, which is made from 3mm acrylic, has cracked. It is the first victim of Nathy’s enthusiastic driving style.Continue reading “So there’s good news and bad news…”

There was much excitement and celebrating yesterday at the PiDrogen works.  We received word that our application to join Pi Wars 2019 was accepted! We’re in!  Whoop whoop! Uh oh.  Gonna have to make something work now! Double Uh oh.  Gonna have to make up for Mother’s Day too.

At team PiDrogen we can’t make up our minds whether we like wheels or tracks best.  So we decided to try both.  Our wheeled chassis works nicely and we’ve had lots of fun driving that around.  So now we have cobbled together a prototype track unit from the Lynxmotion 2in track components that we pickedContinue reading “How about a tracked chassis?”

Oh no, Nathy is distracted by his Flybrix. Now we have no driver. ☹️