Introduction Turn your Brick Pi into a Selfie Stick! Because… why not?? The selfie stick is an absurd trend sweeping the world, and so we bring shame to the Raspberry Pi community by converting a beautiful, useful piece of technology into a crude tourist sensation. YOU WILL NEED: Raspberry Pi SD card (with Dexter Industries Brick Pi image installed)...

A few months ago, we made a Bookreader powered by the BrickPi which had the ability to read pages from your Kindle. There was a huge response to the project.  But what everyone really wanted was a bookreader that could read a real paper book. Here we present to you the BrickPi Bookreader 2 which can read aloud a...

“The browserBot” is a web-browser controller robot using the BrickPi.  With this project, we demonstrate how to control a BrickPi robot directly from the browser of any computer, tablet, or phone. Using the browserBot you can build your own web-controlled robot in very very easily with just a few lines of code. The browserBot is a good place to...

The mouseShooter is a BrickPi robot which can shoot LEGO balls  and is controlled by a mouse for its movement and shooting the balls. You can use the mouse to move the arm around and when you are locked on to your target just press your mouse to shoot the LEGO balls. Building the Mouse Shooter The Mouse shooter...

SimpleBot is the simplest BrickPi model.  With a total of 46 parts(most of them are connectors) and two motors.  A minimalist design, it uses as few parts as possible.  SimpleBot is a great place to start for a first robot with the BrickPi! Sample Program: We have 3 sample programs for the SimpleBot up on Github both in C...

Wouldn’t it be nice of someone read you a book aloud when you were feeling lazy to read it yourself? Have you ever wanted to get that Kindle Book into another format, or just copy the text? Have you ever wanted to get all of your highlights or notes off your Kindle? In this project we make an ebook...

We have developed programming drivers and examples for three languages on the Raspberry Pi:  Python, C, and Scratch. We recommend you try out some of our examples, no matter which programming language you want to use.  These programs will be installed on your Desktop on the Raspberry Pi. Please see our next section, Program It for more information on...

Building your robot The BrickPi can be connected to LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3/NXT Sensors, motors and LEGO TECHNIC parts. Below we will walk through each one and explain how it can be used with the BrickPi. We’ll show you the basics of how TECHNIC parts are connected, but then it is up to your imagination to build whatever you can think...

Now that you’ve succesfully connected to the BrickPi through the browser, and connected over wifi, we can run an example Scratch program. Double click the Scratch icon and the Scratch For Robots interface will appear.   Select the BrickPi robot from the dropdown menu under “Select a Robot”. Next, click “Open Examples”.  This will open the directory of Scratch...

If your SD card says “CINCH”, then please go here (how to set up and connect to CINCH) for instructions on how to connect to your robot! How to use the Raspberry Pi and BrickPi. Because most robots end up moving, hooking up a monitor and micro USB cable power supply might be impractical.  We have developed extra options to...