Orionrobots - Pi Wars 2024 Distaster Zone Technical/Artistic
This video showcases the technical and artist/design aspects of our robot Big Ole Yellow. I talk through the 3D printed parts, the changeable attachment plate and the Pimoroni Yukon (RP2040 based motor controller) to Raspberry Pi bridge.
This is a Robot Line follower based on a Raspberry Pi Pico with a Cytron Maker Line, and can be built with CircuitPython or MicroPython.
There's a demonstration with a brief explanation of the algorithm, and a rather vintage Lego Mindstorms test pad for a line follower.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awsejb_oMVg
In this video, part of my Piwars 2018 preparation, I use a perfboard and some tiny wire to throw together a Raspberry Pi hat for a robot. I show the design in Fritzing and talk through various stages of the small project.
I meet some challenges, including having to rewire part of it, and towards the end - my soldering iron dies.
I then show initial thoughts on mounting it on the robot.
Visible in the video:
* Fritzing electronic CAD (good for tinkering with breadboards, not so helpful for PCB's).
* Pimoroni Octosnap tool for snapping headers.
* Pimoroni Blackhat Hacker.
* 4tronix PiConZero board
* 4tronix Initio robot chassis
* Top Race 7 Channel Excavator (converted into robot base)
* HC-SR04 Ultrasonic sensors.
* WS2801 Neopixel light strips.
Feel free to ask about other items seen in the video. PIWars designs will be made available on our GitHub​ at https://github.org/orionrobots.
This video contains no product placements.
Intro music is my own. Short sting is licensed from SonicFire Pro.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kms-2psWxf8
The ESP8266 Board have announced an Annual Design Contest - this sounds exciting!
Link to Contest: http://www.esp8266.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=7955#p42113
This is part of my video series having fun with the esp8266.
Rest of the Orionrobots esp8266 series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXxP0FUTG0Fm4TeORqiYne44PhnMHKMDG
Previous Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYZelug2SW0 - Simple esp 8266 NodeMCU robot
Next Video: https://youtu.be/YbRDa24pBhY - Building a NodeMCU Robot Kit.
This is not a paid product placement
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2Y8vl38mwQ
Take a look with me at the Robot Cupboard in my lab - a backdrop for many of my videos - and at the robots and projects that lurk within. Some of which have been seen, some haven't yet been shown.
In the video: esp8266, logibloks, the uArm based armbot, the maplin robot arm, A Lego Mindstorms NXT robot, Arachnid Labs cards, MIntygeek, Arduino's, Raspberry Pi's and robots.
To help with translating and transcribing my videos: http://www.youtube.com/timedtext_cs_panel?tab=2&c=UCVllQ0CH357h7jTpzLB9hCA
Support me on Patreon - so I can remove ads and make more videos: https://www.patreon.com/orionrobots (ps there are perks for supporters!)
This video does not contain a paid product placement
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i3bSW3xsgA
I had to stop this print. The extruder was making the noise it does when pressure is building. The over extrusion was a problem.
It's possible that it was confusing absolute/relative extruder coordinates the way CURA did without the extra instructions.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MU8I6zSp6M
I follow up building the MeArm by connecting it to a Raspberry Pi and get GpioZero to talk to it and make it move. This is exploratory more than tutorial.
Pinout: https://pinout.xyz/pinout/mearm_pi
Notes with setup and code examples: https://orionrobots.co.uk/2019/08/31/mearm-with-raspberri-pi.html
To buy the Learn Robotics Programming Book: https://www.packtpub.com/hardware-and-creative/learn-robotics-programming - the eBook is only $10 from the 2nd to 30th September 2019.
Intro music is my own.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_63Iw9JOUjQ
In this video, I unbox and review an electronics bench power supply, the NANKADF WPS3010H Programmable DC Power supply, along with a USB power monitor.
I open it up, look at the controls and the manual, then bring it to the desk and test drive it with a robot and interact with its settings.
Chapters:
00:00:00 Introduction and WPS3010H power supply unboxing
00:01:09 Power supply cables shipped with WPS3010H
00:01:36 Close up view of the back of the WPS3010H bench power supply
00:02:28 WPS3010H Bench power supply front panel controls
00:02:56 Looking through the WPS3010H bench power supply manual
00:07:36 Getting the power supply powered up on the desk
00:08:20 WPS3010H bench power supply settings - turning the beeper off
00:09:19 Setting the voltage on the WPS3010H bench power supply
00:11:03 Attaching the WPS3010H bench power supply test leads
00:12:02 Testing the WPS3010H bench power supply with a robot
00:13:47 Taking a look at the Makerhawk USB Type-C tester instructions
00:15:35 Testing the Makerhawk USB Type-C tester in a USB extension dock
00:16:21 Turning on the Makerhawk USB C-Type tester in a laptop USB port
00:18:01 Closing thoughts on the bench power supply and USB tester
Products in this video:
- Makerhawk USB C-Type tester - https://amzn.to/3upJFtP
- WPS3010H DC bench power supply https://amzn.to/3721uXg
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5XHqqMGqvE
Helena plans to produce more Orionrobots videos, including scratch, electronics, and some robots. She has produced an intro with scratch. Enjoy!
Helena says: I want to thank all of these people on scratch: 5c_ashalina_chs, bdin3181, ddin5147, life_is_precious, hiismee, markverb1 and icefries7 for each making parts of this intro which I stuck together to make one amazing intro!
music is PD: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Monplaisir/Turbo_Rallye_Clicker_4000_Soundtrack/Monplaisir_-_Turbo_Rallye_Clicker_4000_Soundtrack_-_07_Level_4
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6IYjDOYcB8
After getting serial out of the esp8266 wifi board - it went into a reboot loop with a fatal exception. I investigate why, using putty, a multimeter, data sheets and web pages.
In a later video I choose a regulator to overcome these issues: https://youtu.be/9eVtWcNlzaA
Rest of the Orionrobots esp8266 series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXxP0FUTG0Fm4TeORqiYne44PhnMHKMDG
Previous Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTrF5spzkZA - Testing a serial cable and Talking to the esp8266
Next Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb08nfXgguY - Talking with the ESp8266
There are no paid product placements in this video.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQSVA44UN3k