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Hacky Racers is only two months away. Its time to get to work… This is the chassis we plan to use. We’ve had it for years, and it’s a bit worn out / damaged / bent, but I think / hope it will be fine for the competition. It has some nice features: it’s fourContinue reading “Hacky Racers”

We’ve finished the new game that we mentioned in this post. It’s a kind of desktop variant of Tidy Up the Toys. Take a look: So, hopefully, P21 is ready for the Sidmouth Science Festival. We’ll be in the Kennaway House Cellar Bar between 10:00 and 16:00 on the 16th October 2021. Come and sayContinue reading “P21 Ready for Sidmouth Science Festival”

P21 has had a dicky back wheel since it fell off the roof during filming of the Obstacle Course for PiWars at Home. The motor runs, but the speed is not well controlled, so I assume the problem is related to the encoder. After the competiton I dismantled the back axle, reseated the connectors, andContinue reading “Is this the cause of P21’s dodgy wheel?”

Each year, Sidmouth (in the southwest of England) has a science festival.  This, year it takes place between the 8th and the 17th October 2021. We like to go to the festival for the rocket car contest. If you’re an avid follower of our blog, you may recall that our entries won the rocket carContinue reading “Sidmouth Science Festival”

The waiting is over; the results of Pi Wars 2021 at Home have been announced. And I’m delighted to announce that we won the Advanced Category! Here’s a link to the results, the videos we submitted for our entry and some extra videos that were made by P21’s camera as the robot performed the challenges.Continue reading “The Results”

We don’t want to gloat or anything, but we just uploaded the last video to YouTube. Time for a GnT in the sunshine! (Actually, totally gloating. 🙂)

Argh! First the bad news: we may have been too ambitious when filming the obstacle course. PiDrogen has taken a significant tumble and is now in “dry dock”. I can’t tell you what happened right now (you’ll have to wait to see the out take at the end of our obstacle course video at theContinue reading “The Bad News & the Good News”

Yikes!  It’s June.  18 days left.  Better get on with it. When we record the obstacle course, we plan to be running PiDrogen’s recording strategy.  This records a video from the robot’s camera and marks it up with various information, a bit like a Head Up Display (HUD).  See below. The HUD reports the headingContinue reading “The Obstacle Course”