Welcome to Orionrobots
At Orionrobots, Danny and his team build robots, electronics, gadgets and stuff that moves. We aim to make robots easy for anyone to build, and push the boundaries of what is easy. Oh and just to have lots of fun doing it too!
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Recent Posts
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11 Mar 2024 » Tips for the spreadsheets in FreeCADI’ve been doing a lot of FreeCAD work, including a frustrating case of rebuilding a chassis base, the base of my CAD models, because the original was from a STEP import, and had two major issues: more…
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06 Mar 2024 » Why Robotics at Home with Raspberry Pi Pico uses PIOIn my recent book, Robotics at Home with Raspberry Pi Pico, I have used the PIO (Programmable Input Output) system to read the encoders on the robot. Why have I taken this step? more…
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28 Feb 2024 » The Pi Wars robot attachment plate comes togetherThe attachment mounting plate for the robot we’ve been building in my home lab is coming together today. more…
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25 Feb 2024 » Pi Wars update - updating the attachment plateOur Pi Wars 2024 robot, Big Ole Yellow, will compete in challenges that require different attachments. So far, the ones we have in mind are: more…
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24 Feb 2024 » Debugging electronic circuitsI recently have had a reader having trouble with the electronics in Robotics at Home with Raspberry Pi Pico. more…
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Since the second edition of Learn Robotics Programming was published the Raspberry Pi operating system has moved on. This means that the instructions for installing OpenCV and Numpy are out of date. Here’s the updated instructions for installing OpenCV and Numpy on the Raspberry Pi. more…