LINKMICRO were kind enough to provide a LM249MS Digital Microscope for review. This is a versatile microscope that can be used for a variety of applications including SMD soldering and slide inspec...

Pre-release Raspberry Pi 5 During October the team over at Pi Towers were kind enough to send me a new Raspberry Pi 5 to test with the Modular Biped project. This included the new Pi 5, the active...

Emir Hamurcu is a 17 year old maker from Turkey who has been working on a bipedal robot using the Modular Robotics Framework. He very kindly allowed me to interview him about his project and his jo...

If you’re looking for a laptop that’s easy to upgrade and customize, look no further than the Framework Laptop. This laptop is designed to be modular, which means you can easily swap out components...

Many makers use software or 3D models as part of their projects and need a safe way to store those files and share them with others. Git is a great tool for this and is used by many makers and deve...

Following on from my recent post discussing examples of walking robots, it became clear that a logical next step would be to look at how we can teach a robot to walk using simulators and reinforcem...

The biggest question I get asked when showing my bipedal robot to people is is “Does it walk?”. The answer is ‘no’, or rather, ‘not yet’. In order to understand the problem, we need to understand...

The Raspberry Pi 5 was announced last month and offers a number of improvements over the model currently used in the Modular Robotics Bipedal Robot project (The Pi 3B+). Let’s do a comparison to se...

Earlier in the year I was invited to speak about the Modular Robotics Framework on session 2 of the Reddit Robotics Showcase. This was a great opportunity to share the project with a wider audience...

Featured on Official Raspberry Pi News I was very excited to see that the Modular Biped project was featured on the official Raspberry Pi news page. This is a great honour and I’m very grateful to...