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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. ☹️

No longer a pile of bits. Now it’s a fully functional PiDrogen! 😀

We’ve been laser cutting and 3D printing at Fab Lab Exeter and now we have a pile of PiDrogen bits. Time to get the screwdrivers out. 😀

So here is the website for PiDrogen, and I guess this is the first blog post.  Assuming (hoping) we get accepted into PiWars 2019 there will be many more to come, documenting a hectic six months of robot development.  Fingers crossed!