Petoi Bittle – a programmable robot dog

metalwhale | 71 points

I was looking at https://www.unitree.com/go2/ recently, which seems rather good value I thought.

Some of the videos look really impressive, such as the back flips, climbing stairs and the lidar

anfractuosity | 10 days ago

They have a repository on GH with some of their projects code. The OpenCat page also contains information on how to calibrate the servos using a serial monitor, so that one isn't dependent on their phone app. Good! https://github.com/PetoiCamp

Now, what about an updated meow/purr version for us cat lovers?:)

squarefoot | 10 days ago

Here's an example of running a Raspberry on Bittle robot dog https://gitlab.com/sdv.bot/bittle: "Attempts to get SOAFEE Software Defined Vehicle architecture working on the Petoi Bittle robot. Tested on Raspberry 5 w/ 8GB." So instead of running on a real(much more expensive) vehicle, Darwin Sanoy experimented with running SOAFEE on Bittle.

petoi | 3 days ago

I got one of these when I backed them on Kickstarter. It was a fun build and works well. I gave it to one of my neighbors' kids since I didn't really see myself using it all that much, and he enjoys it.

l_j_w | 10 days ago

Ok but it doesnt say anywhere on that page what you can do with the basic package?

orliesaurus | 10 days ago

Is it just me, or is $269 monstrously expensive for some injection moulded plastic, plastic geared servo motors, an arduino compatible board, a battery and some connectivity modules?

voidUpdate | 11 days ago