The first prototypes we put together used an Arduino, and it was with these first prototypes that we had many problems with the motors.

Despite the fact that it didn’t make it into the final model, it was a valuable tool for prototyping, developing and testing our ideas before applying them to the robot.

Last year, I and two of my friends, Ben James and Angus Ledesma, decided to create a Raspberry Pi powered robot for a Silver CREST project. I posted an overview of the project last July and have finally got around to converting the CREST report to a blog-friendly write-up!

Whilst coding in Cambridge with the Raspberry Pi Foundation for the YRS Festival of Code, I was lucky enough to be able to glean some knowledge from Paul Hallet, who introduced me to Flask & Twilio:

For my ongoing heating project I needed to be able to communicate with different nodes around the house. Wirelessly.