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Yesterday, when we left of we had just upgraded to the PI four, and with the deadline coming up for the competition, the rest of the snowflakes started shouting at me to squeese one last blog; so it’ll be short, it will be jucy and it will almost certainly be not fun for me. SoContinue reading “Scooping to victory…”

You know how the saying goes, pies in their eyes, nestled in a nest of spies, no you don’t know it. That’s all right because I just made it up, If you can remember from a couple days ago (I’d be surprised if you can, attention spans are nothing like they used to be, personalyContinue reading “Pies in their Eyes”

Nowadays camera’s are everywhere, in every ally, above every counter and on every person. Every individual meshes together to make one great surveillance system of moving camera’s; as it is so easy for state powers to access our phones and incorporate them into their eyes and ears. But, as some of you may very wellContinue reading “Smile your on camera”

The wheels were wobbling, so what solution did the Snowflakes come up with to fix Jeff the robot? Well, to screw them into place of course. I know, I know, I did last week specifically say that we would not do this as we were not ready yet, and yes we were working on someContinue reading “We Screw Up Again”

Well the wheels were wobbling, or to be more exact they seemed to be forming a nice v. Sorry can we pause for just a second and reverse time, we are a bit to far ahead in the story, yes thank you very much, just slide back a bit more, and stop there. Lithium ionContinue reading “Wobbling wheels”

As you may no doubt know, building a robot is hard; but then again easy, with the Pi starter set, however this set will not get you very far, underpowered motors, low voltage batteries, no proper frame and a whole other host of shortcomings. I mean gosh it is almost as like they had designedContinue reading “Schematics from the Attics”

Last time we left our not so intrepid and not so adventures heroes (the snowflake team), the spinning death machine, uh I mean our little out of control robot could move, its wheels spun like, well I guesses wheels; yes we had little control over the machine but it did move. So with Christmas fastContinue reading “On All Fours”

This is the first post of snowflakes, snowflaking away in our it shed coming up with all different manner of crazy designs but first we had to get the basics sett up. ^codding the Pi^ I remember first opening up the kit and looking at the tangle of resistors, plastic and all different zig-zagging wiresContinue reading “Robot fundamentals”