The Start of "Doing A Raspberry's" Pi Wars 2021 Blog.

The Doing A Raspberry Team has entered the two previous Pi Wars/Virtual Pi Wars (2019 and 2020) as Ratae Robot (2019) and Eco Amica https://youtu.be/n0LahJH7ufs (2020). 

This Blog will follow our journey towards virtual Pi Wars 2021 and hopefully it will be useful for other people (probably Beginners!) thinking of entering or entering Pi Wars. Our team consists of James, Steve, Mary, Bill and Miriam. Due to us having to work remotely and James having a lot of exams we decided to use the robot from last year and work on the software. 

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