Decided it was time to add a Raspberry Pi to my Dagu service droid. I already had a Pi shell so that came in handy to attach the Raspberry Pi to the service droid. It has 2 mounting holes in the back which are ideal to mount it. I drilled 2 holes in the back […]
DFrobot sent me their latest robot kit, the insectbot kit. It’s a small 2 servo robot that’s easy to built and program. The kit is ideal for people who want to built their first robot. It comes with an Arduino compatible micro controller. The insectbot kit is sold for less then 30$, so it doesn’t […]
When I saw the offer on letsmakerobots.com to buy a new robot kit from Dagu at a special price I didn’t hesitate… Dagu’s new robot kit is the “service droid”. It’s a kit that can be mounted on the popular Rover 5 platform. The service droid is made from hundreds of laser cut acrylic parts. […]
I’ve been rewriting the remote control code for my Dagu Rover 5. I wanted to integrate my encoder code in to my remote control sketch. In my old code I would directly scale the joystick values to a pwm value. Now I scale the joystick values to the time between encoder pulses. This is the […]
