Building one of the inexpensive esp8266 robot kits with my 4 year old son. In this we put it together, discuss some of its shortcomings and what to next. Uses the esp12e + esp12e motor shield. Thanks to Benjamin Carlyle - here's the docs for that: https://www.gitbook.com/book/smartarduino/user-mannual-for-esp-12e-motor-shield/details See our next robot build together here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXp9rlYAJKk 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=N2Y8vl38mwQ - Esp8266 Design Contest This is not a paid product placement. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbRDa24pBhY

Bangers and Bash will be the Orionrobots entry for Piwars 2020. PiWars (at piwars.org) is a robotics competition, for robot builders of all levels, with robots built around Raspberry Pi. Bangers and Bash is a lunchbox robot, an upgraded version of the robot I wrote about in The Magpi (Low Cost Wheeled Robotics). In this video, we go over our plans, compare some motor controllers unpackaged straight from a Pimoroni shipment. Helena discusses her art concepts. We compare the humble l298n with some big guns - the RedRobotics RedBoard (@NeilRedRobotics) and the Adafruit Crickit - hats designed for Raspberry Pi. You can learn to build robots too with my book Learn Robotics Programming, from Packt Publishing. You will get a step by step walkthrough on making a robot, programming it with automatic sensor-driven behaviours, using a camera to make decisions, a touch screen phone controller and building a voice assistant sidekick. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ff3qWnBnSc

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 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5XHqqMGqvE

Today I open and build day 4 of the PiHut Codemas Calendar (15th Dec), where I build a circuit with an analog input to the Raspberry Pi Pico. I get creative using it to improve on the Christmas light pattern me and miniorionrobots cooked up on Day 2. This is not a paid promotion. Music: Stardrive by Jeremy Blake. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Offg2zkf6Bs