Robots and Physical Computing

On the 1st September 2017, during 'Force Friday', LittleBits launched their new kit Star Wars Droid Inventor Kit  an R2D2 shaped robot, though you are encouraged to customise it to form your own designs. It comes a number of tutorials, that take you through building a moving head, a proximity sensor to move away from you, and many others. So confession time, I am not the target audience for this kit, but I have enjoyed playing with it. The tutorials take you through building and dismantling the kit, doing a range of different activities and in most cases controlling it remotely from an iPad. You can even record your voice and have it played back from the Droid, in my opinion, the wide of sounds is one of the things that lift this from being just a nice kit -  I will get onto the other one soon. Though good fun, I was left with a question can it be programmed? This was my first time using a LittleBits kit I didn't know what the options were available for programming i...

Translated using Google Translate from  http://robotsandphysicalcomputing.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/gesture-controlled-minecraft-x-wing.html  I apologise if there are any translation issues. Ce poste se fonde sur deux postes précédents et tente de répondre à certains des commentaires très utiles de personnes qui ont essayé cela. J'espère que cela aide. Globalement, le projet se fonde sur un projet antérieur pour obtenir d'un simple X -Wing dans Minecraft sur ​​un Raspberry Pi . Le but était obtenir Python pour construire et déplacer le X -Wing . Les détails de ce projet peuvent être trouvés ici . Révision Principale: Dans ce projet, et le précédent est basé autour de Python 3 exécutant le Raspbian ' Jessie ' Novembre version de l'OS . Aussi les bibliothèques supplémentaires peuvent devoir être ajouter pour obtenir le minecraftstuff (comme ShapeBlock ( ) et MinecraftShape ( ) ) . Détails sur la façon d' obtenir et d'installer ceux-ci peuven...

  PiJam  event on Saturday 16th April 2016, in Newton Building, University of Northampton, NN2 6JB. This is a free event, open to those who either want to found out more about the Raspberry Pi; want to share with others what they have done with the Pi; or just want to talk with others about them. Most of all (I hope) to have some fun. The event has been supported by the University of Northampton providing the rooms. Tickets (Free) are available at:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/northamptonshire-raspberry-jam-tickets-20886649531 Examples of possible 'show and tell ' items include: -Minecraft running on a Raspberry Pi with movement controlled with gesture control of an Star Wars styled X-Wing - Raspberry Pi controlling a 'junk robot' More updates to follow.  Tickets (Free) are available at:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/northamptonshire-raspberry-jam-tickets-20886649531 All opinions in this blog are the Author's and should not in any way b...

figure 1 This post builds on two earlier posts and tries to address some of the very useful comments from people who have tried this. I hope this helps. Overall the project builds on an earlier project to get a simple X-Wing into Minecraft on a Raspberry Pi.  The goal was get Python to build and move the X-Wing. Details of this project can be found  here . Main revision: In this project and the earlier one is based around Python 3 running the Raspbian 'Jessie' November version OS. Also additional libraries may need to be add to get the minecraftstuff (such as ShapeBlock() and MinecraftShape() ). Details on how to obtain and install these can be found at    http://www.stuffaboutcode.com/2013/11/codin g-shapes-in-minecraft.html  . In this post the additional of Pirmoroni's  Skywriter is included to allow movements of a hand or a finger to enable the X-Wing to take-off, land, move forward or backward. It builds on ideas from the book  Adv...