Monthly Archives: December 2013

ping-pong press!

My robot was written about recently on the Raspberry Pi foundation blog, and now on the Pololu blog too, the place I originally got my tracks from!

Robot at RubyConf

I took my robot to RubyConf. It’s not really Ruby related, but I figured it would go down like a robot at a programmers conference… So I took the robot apart, packed it away and headed to Miami:

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First job, putting the robot back together again. I was happy it made it through security. It was the first time I’d flown with a small toolkit.

The robot laid bare

I was carrying the robot around most of the first day, people constantly asking to try it out:

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It worked well on the shiny floor of the lobby. You can just about see the new 3d printed lifter arm:

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Totally coincidentally Ron Evans also did a great talk on Artoo and the newly announced Gobotio.

Programmers love robots!