Bangers and Bash part 1 - Piwars 2020 Planning

Bangers and Bash will be the Orionrobots entry for Piwars 2020.

PiWars (at piwars.org) is a robotics competition, for robot builders of all levels, with robots built around Raspberry Pi.

Bangers and Bash is a lunchbox robot, an upgraded version of the robot I wrote about in The Magpi (Low Cost Wheeled Robotics).

In this video, we go over our plans, compare some motor controllers unpackaged straight from a Pimoroni shipment. Helena discusses her art concepts.

We compare the humble l298n with some big guns - the RedRobotics RedBoard (@NeilRedRobotics) and the Adafruit Crickit - hats designed for Raspberry Pi.

You can learn to build robots too with my book Learn Robotics Programming, from Packt Publishing. You will get a step by step walkthrough on making a robot, programming it with automatic sensor-driven behaviours, using a camera to make decisions, a touch screen phone controller and building a voice assistant sidekick. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ff3qWnBnSc