Raspberry Pi The Humanoid Robot RAPIRO

RAPIRO is a cute and affordable robot kit designed to work with a Raspberry Pi. It comes with a Arduino-compatible servo controller.

RAPIRO comes with a total of 12 servo motors, one for its neck, one in the waist, four for the two feet, and the final six for its two arms. Rapiro can walk with its feet, can grip a pen, and can turn its head and waist.

I believe that RAPIRO can be a catalyst between robotics and Paspberry Pi. We want to start a revolution in cute, cool, affordable, customizable, and programmable robots. If we are successful in our kickstarter, we will publish 3D data (.stl) on our website, allowing you to customize the RAPIRO with a 3D printer. 

The torques of the six servos in the neck, waist and two feet, are 2.5kgf-cm(35ozf-in). The torques of six servos in the two arms are 1.5kgf-cm(21ozf-in). Both operating speeds are 0.12 sec/60°. Both maximum angles are 180°. Both servo motors of two kinds are specially designed for RAPIRO.

RAPIRO ON Kickstater
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shota/rapiro-the-humanoid-robot-kit-for-your-raspberry-p

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Raspberry Pi Model B Revision 2.0 (512MB)
Raspberry Pi Model A (256MB)

Raspberry Pi Model A review

The cheaper model of the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s digital computer is currently offered within the u. s.. The Raspberry Pi Model A is supplied with constant 700MHz processor because the dearer Model B however includes only 1 USB port, no local area network port, and [*fr1] the RAM of the first model to stay the worth low. Sales of the Model A began in Europe in February and swollen to Asia last week. Raspberry Pi founder Eben Upton has unconcealed that sales of the cheaper Pi unit square measure around “a few thousand a week” to this point.
“We burned through the primary twenty,000 units quite quickly, and square measure building a number of thousand every week at the instant, however we have a tendency to don’t have smart visibility of sell through however,” Upton aforementioned in a very statement to TechCrunch. “I’d expect USA to dip in and out of handiness for consequent month some till we have a tendency to reach a gentle state.”

The device consumes roughly a 3rd of the facility of the Model B and is marketed towards homemade comes that use electric battery or solar energy. The Raspberry Pi Model A is offered to yank consumers for $25 from Allied physics.

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Raspberry Pi Model B Revision 2.0 (512MB)
Raspberry Pi Model A (256MB)

What is The Raspberry Pi

The Raspberry Pi may be a single-board laptop developed within the United Kingdom by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. The Raspberry Pi may be a credit-card sized laptop that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. it is a capable very little computer which may be used for several of the items that your desktop computer will, like spreadsheets, word-processing, and games, additionally as plays high-definition video. the planning relies around a Broadcom BCM2835 SoC, which has associate degreeARM1176JZF-S 700 megacycle processor, VideoCore IV GPU, and 512 Megabytes of RAM. 

This revision a pair of.0 board options 2 mounting holes for straightforward installation, a inherent reset circuit, and may be power-driven via the USB knowledge ports. the planning doesn't embody a inherent magnetic disc or solid-state drive, instead wishing on associate degree Mount Rushmore State card (not included) for booting and long-run storage. The Raspberry Pi is meant to run in operation system} kernel primarily based operating systems.

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Raspberry Pi Model B Revision 2.0 (512MB)
Raspberry Pi Model A (256MB)