Pi Wars Dangly Too

Here’s a sneak preview of DT’s progress on this challenge. On the test run, he successfully negotiates the dog leg, but he is a bit...

How do you select the Pi Wars challenge when we have no display attached? Using the eye LEDs obviously! We’re using one eye (left in...

Preliminary testing of the OpenCv code looking for red areas, then turning to face it. Looking promising!

With only 3 weeks to go to the competition (less than 2 weeks for the video submission), we’re in panic mode. Nothing much working yet....

Dangly Too design was based on the disastrous weapon idea from WW2, the Panjamdrum. This was an attempt of developing a two-wheeled,...

We needed to resolve a couple of issue with Dangly Too, namely He goes too fast, so we need to slow him down a bit to make him more...

Neil did some testing on Dangly Too at the CamJam event yesterday. It turns out that DT has an amazing turn of speed! However this did...

We just had a major catastrophe 😱 On attempting to take the SD card out of the Raspberry Pi, it was a bit tight so I used a pair of...

Neil has just invested in a new Arducam LIDAR ToF Camera for Dangly Too. This will mean we can measure the distance from DT to any...

For the Pi Noon battles, we need to add a mount point at the front, ahead of everything else. It must keep the attachment vertical and...

We've decided to put a camera on Dangly Too (hopefully two if we have time to upgrade to a Pi 5). But the camera does little than take a...

For the various challenges, we are allowed to add attachments that can also be up to 100mm longer than the base robot length (but same...

Having spent the last couple of months getting the motors, wheels and Raspberry Pi 4 all assembled into a basic robot, it's time to test...

We wanted to give Dangly Too a personality, and the most important part of this is a good looking face. We thought the decision should...

We've been looking for some large wheels around 250mm diameter for Dangly Too. But all the ones we've found are quite heavy and would...

Just received our first, brand new shiny Raspberry Pi 5 with active cooling fan 😃 But should we use it in our new Pi Wars robot Dangly...

We wanted to add some flashy lights to Dangly Too, but assumed this was quite easy to do! How difficult can it be? Well more difficult...

After a couple of tweaks, we’ve 3D-printed the design of the chassis. The first attempt went well and proved to be strong enough, so we...

I’ve been using the on-line 3D design tool OnShape for a couple of years now and find it fantastic way to design 3d-printed components....

Have just received the two motors that will power Dangly Too. These are large 12 volt 421 rpm motors, that should give him plenty of...