Robots and Physical Computing

A little more detail on my experience of PiCademy and some of the code developed (and I apologies it is not well developed). Programming LEDs and Motors through either the the GPIO or using an HAT (see the images below) is just what I enjoy the most. To have a go, you may have to have the following: The latest version of Raspbian, at the time of writing Jessie ( https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/ ) Import the following sudo apt-get install python-twython sudo pip3 install explorehat sudo pip3 install gpiozero In the above image was my attempt at a simple 'Dalek' - essentially a cup and straw, with a wheeled motor inside. Controlled using python,  Pi through an Explorer HAT PRO . It essentially moved in a circle either clockwise (button 1 on the explorehat) or anti-clockwise (button 2). import explorerhat from time import sleep from random import randint def wheel(channel, event):     duration = randint(1,2) ...

I was fortunate to get a place at Picademy (#picademy) this week. It was a fantastic opportunity and great fun, especially as most of it was about Physical computing. In the screenshot above I was playing SonicPi ( http://sonic-pi.net/ ) programming music (or trying to create music in my case). If you haven't had a go at throughly recommend it. It is great that SonicPi is available on the Mac and PC as well.  Playing with connecting Python and Minecraft is very engaging and fun, but programming LEDs and Motors through either the the GPIO or using an HAT (see the images below) is just what I enjoy the most. In the above image was my attempt at a simple 'Dalek' - essentially a cup and straw, with a wheeled motor inside. Controlled using python,  Pi through an ExplorerHat. It essentially moved in a circle either clockwise or anti-clockwise. Rise of Rabbitsapien - A team of us put together a project of a robot with a rabbit (no other soft toys were ava...