Project / 001
First System
PI0NEER’s first Raspberry Pi-based robotic system is currently being designed. The work is in concept: establishing a complete sense–compute–act loop before committing to a finished machine.
Overview
Problem or goal
Build a first experimental robotic system around Raspberry Pi compute — a platform that can sense, compute, and act, and that can be documented honestly from the first sketch.
Most early robotics work either stays in simulation or jumps to a finished-looking machine. First System is meant to be physical, testable, and small enough to iterate on without pretending it is already a product.
System status
- Status
- Concept
- Version
- 0.1
- Compute
- Raspberry Pi
- Build
- 001
- Year
- 2026
Architecture
Signal path
- 01 Input
- 02 Sensor layer
- 03 Raspberry Pi
- 04 Software / Control
- 05 Output
Hardware
- Compute
- Raspberry Pi
- Sensing
- Not yet defined
- Actuation
- Not yet defined
- Power
- Not yet defined
- Chassis
- Not yet defined
- Communications
- Not yet defined
Software
IN DEVELOPMENT. Languages, frameworks and robotics libraries are not yet defined.
Nothing is locked while the architecture is still in concept. Software will be recorded here when it exists.
Engineering log
Project opened
First System entered the PI0NEER log as Build 001. Scope: a Raspberry Pi-based robotic system, starting from concept. No hardware freeze. No invented specifications.
Testing
- Status
- Pending first prototype
Testing methodology is not yet defined. Results will be published here when there is a prototype to measure.
What failed
Not yet defined. Nothing has failed yet because nothing has been built yet. This section exists so failures are written down instead of edited out.
Iterations
Concept. Compute platform selected: Raspberry Pi. Mechanical, electrical, and software architecture still open.