As Tom’s Hardware reports, the maker and computer vision enthusiast, Kaiser, posted a video on Twitter showing his latest robot-shape called Dot. The name is so good, it’s assuming Dot is a bit larger than a postage stamp. If nothing’s right to the point of the case above, Dot has been sitting on a Raspberry Pi 2 model B board. Tweet Because the details are fairly clear at the moment (Kaiser promises to share more soon), Dot uses a Piminori Tiny 2040 development board designed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation and which is also used to support the Pipino Pico board. The Tiny is significantly smaller than Pico, uses a USB-C connection and comes with 8MB of flash storage. Dot uses two DC geared 3-V batteries connected to the GPIO on the Tinyboard, and draws power from a 70-mAh lithium-polymer battery. As the video shows, Dot has enough power to roll an AA battery around, but also the ability to move around and change the direction. Kaiser had CircuitPython to program Dot, but is planning on turning it on C++ in future. Pimonori created the Tiny 2040 because it wanted something smaller and with a few flashes on board. The Raspberry Pi is the smallest yet, and it is hard to imagine that anyone could produce a smaller one without a new, smaller board. Let’s hope that Dot turns into a project we can buy in kit form and get together ourselves.
title: “Postage Stamp Sizing Robot Made By Raspberry Pi Microcontroller” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-28” author: “Frances Mackey”
As Tom’s Hardware reports, the maker and computer vision enthusiast, Kaiser, posted a video on Twitter showing his latest robot-shape called Dot. The name is so good, it’s assuming Dot is a bit larger than a postage stamp. If nothing’s right to the point of the case above, Dot has been sitting on a Raspberry Pi 2 model B board. Tweet Because the details are fairly clear at the moment (Kaiser promises to share more soon), Dot uses a Piminori Tiny 2040 development board designed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation and which is also used to support the Pipino Pico board. The Tiny is significantly smaller than Pico, uses a USB-C connection and comes with 8MB of flash storage. Dot uses two DC geared 3-V batteries connected to the GPIO on the Tinyboard, and draws power from a 70-mAh lithium-polymer battery. As the video shows, Dot has enough power to roll an AA battery around, but also the ability to move around and change the direction. Kaiser had CircuitPython to program Dot, but is planning on turning it on C++ in future. Pimonori created the Tiny 2040 because it wanted something smaller and with a few flashes on board. The Raspberry Pi is the smallest yet, and it is hard to imagine that anyone could produce a smaller one without a new, smaller board. Let’s hope that Dot turns into a project we can buy in kit form and get together ourselves.
title: “Postage Stamp Sizing Robot Made By Raspberry Pi Microcontroller” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-17” author: “Thomas Vitale”
As Tom’s Hardware reports, the maker and computer vision enthusiast, Kaiser, posted a video on Twitter showing his latest robot-shape called Dot. The name is so good, it’s assuming Dot is a bit larger than a postage stamp. If nothing’s right to the point of the case above, Dot has been sitting on a Raspberry Pi 2 model B board. Tweet Because the details are fairly clear at the moment (Kaiser promises to share more soon), Dot uses a Piminori Tiny 2040 development board designed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation and which is also used to support the Pipino Pico board. The Tiny is significantly smaller than Pico, uses a USB-C connection and comes with 8MB of flash storage. Dot uses two DC geared 3-V batteries connected to the GPIO on the Tinyboard, and draws power from a 70-mAh lithium-polymer battery. As the video shows, Dot has enough power to roll an AA battery around, but also the ability to move around and change the direction. Kaiser had CircuitPython to program Dot, but is planning on turning it on C++ in future. Pimonori created the Tiny 2040 because it wanted something smaller and with a few flashes on board. The Raspberry Pi is the smallest yet, and it is hard to imagine that anyone could produce a smaller one without a new, smaller board. Let’s hope that Dot turns into a project we can buy in kit form and get together ourselves.
