Haven't seen many posts about the Raspberry Pi here, but the first batch of units is getting shipped pretty soon. If you don't know what it is take a look here http://www.raspberrypi.org/ - it's a very small very cheep computer.
A couple of my friends at work (PhD engineering students) have started a company to make boxes for the device, they prototyped the design using the maker bot and the cool thing is the box has holes which lets you attach it to LEGO.
Partially this is a shameless plug from me to them (I've got no invested interest, other than their my friends), but LEGO + Maker bot + really small computer = Tested in my book.
Partially this is a shameless plug from me to them (I've got no invested interest, other than their my friends), but LEGO + Maker bot + really small computer = Tested in my book.
I could see this as a means to creating even more complex lego machinations than what something like mindstorm would let us, if it were eventually able to interface those moving parts somehow.
Haven't seen many posts about the Raspberry Pi here, but the first batch of units is getting shipped pretty soon. If you don't know what it is take a look here http://www.raspberrypi.org/ - it's a very small very cheep computer.
A couple of my friends at work (PhD engineering students) have started a company to make boxes for the device, they prototyped the design using the maker bot and the cool thing is the box has holes which lets you attach it to LEGO.
Their design is here http://www.raspberrypi.org/forum/projects-and-collaboration-general/berry-box-the-transparent-case
Partially this is a shameless plug from me to them (I've got no invested interest, other than their my friends), but LEGO + Maker bot + really small computer = Tested in my book.
Anyone got any crazy ideas for using this?
@seanwalton84 said:
'Their' should be 'they're' - how embarrassing!
I could see this as a means to creating even more complex lego machinations than what something like mindstorm would let us, if it were eventually able to interface those moving parts somehow.
I know with Microsoft Robotics studio you can interface directly with the NXT brick using USB, not sure if there is a Linux equivalent though....