Ah yes. We promised ourselves much needed downtime after a number of fairly hectic detours recently. There's been a whole lotta Rosie recently. We went in a bit hard with the sensors, servos and 3D printing. And the workshop is looking a tad thuderstruck as a result. What we could do with - now - is a soothing little distraction. A rest bite. One that adds some long overdue razzmatazz to this highway to hell splendour of a journey. After all, which roboticist doesn't love lights that flash meaninglessly? In inexplicable colours. At arbitrary intervals. For no reason whatsoever. Great! Sounds like our kind of R&R. Besides, the blog is still celebrating its 1 year anniversary . As such, it's a perfect excuse to roll out this lighting rig to this rock 'n' roll party. You don't want to be the tool without the tooling: A Raspberry Pi 3, running Raspbian OS Say 'EL-lo to your EL wire (no, that didn't quite work). It should come ...
Daddy, can we make a robot?