The back story to this article is pretty simple. I have a Raspberry Pi, one of those super small ARM computers that cost about $35. I use the Raspberry Pi to run Nagios and monitor my servers (a tutorial on that will be coming later). I wanted to be able to have my Raspberry Pi send me an SMS message should specific alert happen on my servers, but I really did not want to pay a SMS gateway for this luxury (email works find I would just prefer SMS). So I started looking for a solution.
Make a robot friend with Adafruit’s CRICKIT – A Creative Robotics & Interactive Construction Kit. It’s an add-on to our popular Circuit Playground Express, FEATHER and other platforms to make and program robots with CircuitPython, MakeCode, and Arduino. Start controlling motors, servos, solenoids. You also get signal pins, capacitive touch sensors, a NeoPixel driver and amplified speaker output. It complements & extends your boards so you can still use all the goodies on the microcontroller, now you have a robotics playground as well.
