Building a Companion Robot with Raspberry Pi and Arduino

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[@ericotto4583]

Fascinating to watch the progress of this project. Great work!

[@LazyDogWoodshed]

Absolutely love this. Great work, inspiring me to get back into the workshop. Thanks for sharing

[@gr8tbigtreehugger]

Awesome work - very cool! Thanks for sharing this update!

[@CraigHissett]

Great work! And really good to hear another North East based tinkerer :-) This is a fantastic platform to build on.

[@raspberrypi]

NICE. We're posting this on the blog tomorrow!

[@sh4dyweather11]

Very much love/appreciate this video, Thank You!! Watching this Enlighted what my souls been looking for.

[@PhG1961]

Awesome KZbin channel. I have exactly the same interests/ideas! So glad I found your channel!

[@Chris_has_infinite-interests]

This looks fun. I started printing the parts today. I had to fiddle around with the parts in my slicer. Most of them loaded upside-down. Also, I had to add support to some of them. So far, so good. Can't wait for the printing to be over!

[@DanMakesThings]

Nice! If you haven't already, feel free to join the community: bit.ly/maker-forge-community

[@ellesvenne6479]

BD-2 is looking great!

[@charleslindberg829]

I was hoping to find this clever comment. ❤

[@Stainlesspack83]

Definitly will be doing this!!! This is badass cant wait

[@nightknight4180]

10:04 wow I hope this Bot will be successful greetings from Turkey.

[@sicantreis]

Super cool project! Thank you for sharing =)

[@brodyekvall3129]

If I may suggest a course of action with the walking problem... Study Biomechanics of bipedal locomotion of birds. You may notice that birds have more degrees of freedom in their hips than you have allotted in your design. By incorporating the ability to do the splits & torsion the legs. Then, apply design specs into a 3D virtual environment for trail & error to figure out an efficient gate. I think another interesting adaptation may be to add wireless charging to the belly so it can sit on a charging pad.

[@aoeu256]

if you know some AI evolving software for walking, leg configuration, and balance that would be good. I think 2 legs should be used for our cars and robots, as it allows robots to move more freeform. Also the head can be replaced with a tablet/smartphone.

[@miguelroberts-vallejo7819]

I love your work and am looking to build your final version. It looks so good.

[@DanMakesThings]

If you're waiting for the final version you may have to wait a while, but you're more than welcome to join the community in the meantime! bit.ly/maker-forge-community

[@miguelroberts-vallejo7819]

@@DanMakesThings I should of been a little more clear in my comment, I am mainly looking to attempt your most current revision. 3rd interation I guess. The community you have had form together seems to be a great team players and a lot of chatter on the forums. I can't wait to see what people come up with due to the more modular design.

[@yannhuang6996]

wowwww you deserve more views for sure

[@PCBWay]

This is really great!!

[@sensii2]

i love your work

[@SLAVKINGRED]

this project is rad.

[@pandaboy6621]

Stumbled across this beautiful creation and remembered the discontinued anki vector bot. Hope his legacy will live on and someone can implement support for this robot with a home assistant integration.

[@mcombatti]

Anki was repurchased and is still going... They even have a "large" vector now, as well as a self-standing rolly bot and working on a drone-flying bot ;-) digital dream labs

[@mcombatti]

Digital dream labs even has an open source AI bot software to install on devices like this, to give them native "vector" features, only customizable ..so all the motion, animation, and movement/travel, and object recognition is already in place and just needs expansion or customization. There's a bunch of gpt and self-operating versions of vector this very moment. Digital dream labs actually sued another company for replicating the Anki vector nearly to the tee about a year ago. (They violated patent law).

[@chrisdixon5241]

Hi Dan, this looks great! I'd love to see a walking version one day but as you said it would be a hard problem to solve. Whilst working on that, I had the same idea as someone else in the comments - Why not consider putting tracks on the end of the legs, in the style of R2D2 - perhaps with a 3rd supporting leg to increase stability when moving (again R2D2 style)

[@DanMakesThings]

It's an interesting idea and comparatively easy to add. If you're thinking about trying it out we'd love to hear how it goes: bit.ly/maker-forge-community

[@__tengu__]

MG MK ll ! Hal or Harry would be proud. 😊

[@degreeless_engineering]

I think this is so cool. I wonder if substituting the legs for rubber tracks would be a better solution for mobility?

[@danielmontmeny9880]

And then you've got Wall-e!! Jokes aside, I totally agree, and I think I'm going to make that.

[@ambulatorioveterinariodott3768]

Have you ever seen the movie short circuit? It could be a nice option to use tracks instead of legs...less power consumption and more stability I suppose.

[@TibiaAcademy]

This! But with plush fur 😊 Ty sr

[@moveforward81]

I think that’s cool, but I’m thinking your pup & my pup should get to know each other!!

[@mrwolsy3696]

I like it, you need a hip to balance.

[@MechAero_Labs]

Hello sir ,I really love your work . I want to try to build my own companion robot 🤖

[@DanMakesThings]

Go for it! 👏

[@emoutraspalavras-marloncou4459]

Great! Can it walk? If not, are you planning to give this skill?

[@exsurgemechprints2671]

Another use case: pass the butter 😂

[@TonyReid]

Have you considered the person sensor from useful sensors? Its a tiny I2C module and I use it for face tracking. Its about £11 and does all the heavy lifting! I got mine from pi hut, but digikey have them too.

[@DanMakesThings]

Yes I've been interested in trying this out. How well does it work?

[@mableallen133]

❤

[@riteshmarupudi161]

Hi sir The idea is amazing I am interested in building this robot Would love a step by step guide please

[@DanMakesThings]

Thanks! Take a look at the wiki (and join the community) github.com/dmt-labs/modular-biped/wiki

[@roheb69]

Hi Dan, I was just ordering if this project is something a first year computer science student could tackle. I guess ultimately, my question is how beginner friendly (in Robotics) is this project. I am only asking this because of how mind blow I am with your project and I am super curious about robotics thanks to you!.

[@DanMakesThings]

Yes absolutely! Join the community and we'll help with any questions. bit.ly/maker-forge-community

[@paulbecket7399]

BD-1 !!

[@vinu3541]

Wish to build a robot for washing up dishes for my home❤

[@azeempollard8453]

do you break down how you set up the arduino/ rasberry pi ?

[@DanMakesThings]

Check out the playlist and the wiki 👍

[@user-dv1wy8vw7h]

This model is great, I want to make one myself, where can I find materials to make it? Thank you so much!

[@DanMakesThings]

Thanks! Take a look on the wiki: bit.ly/modular-biped

[@paulwatts1963]

god i wish i could afford to do that he is great

[@DanMakesThings]

If you have a 3d printer it's not as expensive as you might think. Most of the cost is in the head, and none of that is really essential. 🤑

[@paulwatts1963]

@@DanMakesThings not got a 3d printer 😭 i am old blind and would love a little robot to talk to

[@dolphin--agirlwholikesprog8477]

It's a really cool project.

[@aoeu256]

Can you make the legs and neck as a different module, and connect a iphone/tablet onto the robot for simple telepresense? I was thinking you could put solar panels and a battery outside, and have the robots wander around in the back yard and at night they would go back to the "tree" solar panel charger to sleep. You could then get a chinese company to mass produce it.

[@DanMakesThings]

Sure, it's modular so you can reconfigure as needed. You'd have a challenge with the 'wandering around the back yard' bit, but wheels might work ;)

[@user-dv1wy8vw7h]

I want to make one by myself, can you share the latest 3D model V3?

[@DanMakesThings]

Everything is linked in the wiki: bit.ly/modular-biped

[@iknowyouarh]

Hello, just wondering if you looked at using Robot OS for this?

[@DanMakesThings]

I may look at creating a version with ROS 2 in the future but the goal was to make this accessible, and the barrier to entry for ROS is quite high. I'd like to do something with it eventually, as with Viam.

[@iknowyouarh]

That's great. There is a Ubuntu blog article that may help break down some of that barrier. It talks about easily setting up dev environments using Multipass and touches on using Blueprints "ROS development on Linux, Windows and macOS Jeremie Deray on 5 May 2023"

[@yannhuang6996]

i'm building one lobster-inspired robot as well with Jetson nano and arduino mega. But i'm still on the early prototyping phase. There's some really intricate locomotion mechanism going on, constantly losing faith lol

[@SISSYPUSS]

How is your lobster walker going, are you still working on it?

[@yannhuang6996]

@@SISSYPUSS I'm stuck on battery supply. Those I need are expensive in Europe, so i ordered some from China yet each shipement takes 3 months and everytime it will get stuck at the custom....I've tried three times already

[@SISSYPUSS]

@@yannhuang6996 Can you tell me the size, capacity, cell type, outer package dimensions and connector type? Let me see what I can do.

[@yannhuang6996]

@@SISSYPUSS 💖That's VERY NICE of you to offer! I found a friend who's travelling to China soon and I asked him to help bringing back the battery pack that i ordered. I think i'll be able to get back on track in a month :)

[@SISSYPUSS]

@@yannhuang6996 Great, when you get it going send me the video link! 👍

[@l3d9ends84]

Can u make a video on how the cpu controls the servos

[@DanMakesThings]

Take a look at the earlier videos and the wiki, hopefully that covers everything.

[@TheMetalisImmortal]

Kolay gelsin Emir Hamurcu bey

[@SentryCoderDeveloper]

teşekkürler @mortalmetal9072 bey 😀

[@TungNguyen-dh6pz]

Can it walk?

[@riteshmarupudi161]

Is there any way I can contact you sir Email maybe I have a similar project which I need help in

[@doriankolacko6341]

BD-1

[@MrMakto]

Hiw does one learn todo all this

[@DanMakesThings]

One has traded one's sanity in exchange.

[@tomhatton3637]

BD-1?!

[@c7iC]

so isn't this just B-D1 from jedi fallen order, don't get me wrong I still love this but it does look similar. ps. I also really really want one.

[@jekkleegrace]

You're kidding me it doesn't walk? Been doing it for years? Saved that for the end didn't you.

[@mynameisprivate158]

I am very disappointed, I was thinking of a more Japanese style "companian" robot......

[@DanMakesThings]

Be the change you want to see in the world 😉

[@Kaeldrom]

Disappointed that an English guy named Dan, living in the UK, isn’t making Japanese robots.. on a video where he doesn’t say the word Japan once? I want what you’re smoking

[@chungiemusic]

This is a weird comment