[Wylug-discuss] Next Meeting 26th January 7:30. Can we change it to the 25th?

[Gary Stainburn]

That's impressive.  All I wanted mine to do was go to the kitchen to collect a 
beer :-)

Apparently someone has even managed an Alexa interface for a Pi robot now, 
although the interface is very slow and crude as it relys on IFTTTT.

Unfortunately, my efforts to connect Alexa to the house has meant that I still 
haven't built my first robot.

On Wednesday 25 January 2017 20:50:43 David Morris via Wylug-discuss wrote:
> Hi Gary,
>
> Thanks for the tip on the CamJam eduKit for robotics. The £18 is super
> cheap compared to the other kits I was contemplating and it looks like it
> will achieve the line-following that I'm looking for. I expect it won't
> have as exact control as some of the more expensive servo kits, but that
> might work well for my use case.
>
> In the long run I want to have one main, hero, robot which follows a
> central path and multiples smaller, bad-guy, robots which try and attack
> the main robot and deter it from following the path. The plan is to mimick
> a tower defence computer game and then update bad-guy robots with different
> tactics for deterring the hero robot. The CamJam kit is cheap enough that
> it looks like it could be used for this sort of thing.
>
> Thanks,
>
> David Morris
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> On 16 January 2017 at 09:50, Gary Stainburn via Wylug-discuss <
>
> wylug-discuss at wylug.org.uk> wrote:
> > On Friday 13 January 2017 15:49:33 David Morris via Wylug-discuss wrote:
> > > I got a Raspberry Pi 3 from my brother in law. I'm well chuffed about
> > > it. I'm hoping to get a small robot kit and program it for following a
> > > route drawn out on paper on the floor (for the kids at school!)
> > >
> > > Any recommendations on Robot kits?
> > >
> > > David Morris
> > > 3G Telecommunications Limited
> >
> > For a first kit you can do a lot worse than the CamJam kit
> >
> > https://thepihut.com/products/camjam-edukit-3-robotics
> >
> > I'm a fan of the CamJam kits, and bought a few of the Kit 2's to build
> > PIR/lux/temperature sensors for my home automation system.
> >
> > There are a number of howto's online for extending this kit to include
> > remote
> > control using a Wii remote, and even one to control it using voice
> > commands via Alexa.
> >
> > (BTW, Amazon Dot / Alexa combined with IFTTT is amazing. I can controll
> > pretty
> > much anything anywhere  via voice commands)
> >
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-- 
Gary Stainburn
Group I.T. Manager
Ringways Garages
http://www.ringways.co.uk