New Kickstarter MouseAir – Raspberry Pi
MouseAir – A Raspberry Pi AI Based Cat Toy Launcher for STEM, Makers, advanced kids and adults. Learn while you grow! No soldering needed!
The MouseAir Kickstarter is Now Live!
Checkout the MouseAir Kickstarter Here
This project has it all. There have been few projects that make us laugh out loud every time we look at it, but this is one of those. MouseAir. This is an easy to build (no soldering!) project that will turn your Raspberry Pi into one of the funniest, smartest and cat like projects of all time. Let’s start out by watching a MouseAir Launch in sloooow motion.
What is the AI (Artificial Intelligence) part of this project? We use Machine Learning and the Pi Camera to determine if we are looking at a Cat.
What Will You Learn with MouseAir
The educational goals for MouseAir are:
- Learn about the Raspberry Pi and installing software on the Pi
- Connecting up sensors to the Raspberry Pi
- Understanding motors and servos and how they work
What is a Grove Connector?
The way we have been wiring I2C connections before just didn’t work for building fast and quick IOT projects. Then we found Grove.
There are hundreds of Grove Devices from multiple manufacturers around the world. Just for a quick look finds over 100 boards.
You can’t plug it in backwards. If you put the connector in the wrong plug it just doesn’t work. No smoke. No fire. This makes us happy as we look over into our Box Of Death, filled with boards we have ruined.
We quickly found the Grove connectors and their respective cables very useful. With the large selection of Grove I2C devices available, we decided to include a Grove connector on all our future boards and products.
For more information, check out our full Grove Tutorial here.