We discuss anything & everything related to /diy/ robots, including AI, robowaifus, arduino/raspberry pi kits, and more.

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Drones and pure remote control general >>2898878
3D Printing general >>2913203
https://alogs.space/robowaifu/catalog.html

Galatea Multipurpose Companion Maid Robot
I made it to be easy to build as well easy to modify

XLeRobot
https://github.com/Vector-Wangel/XLeRobot

im warming up to it. Time to make the robot walk. Lets rock.

https://youtube.com/shorts/lhFtkBlsgO8
i was on the fence whether to publish that video cause its kind of negative but here it goes

Where do I start if I want to make a cleaning droid?

>>2916229
you mean a roomba or an android?
youd start with the inmoov thats the best opensource robot with hands.
it cant walk though but you can give ut wheels.
As for the ai youd want to train the ai on dirt recognition to start off. That is thoussnds of pictures if durt along wuth reflection recognition(dirt absorbs light)
>still waiting for the fall out of that robot waifu engineer comment lol

>>2916248
well i did say id make the robot walk but if i make the blueprints theyd be paywalled behind the patreon under cc by(must attribute the source) so my name gets out there and stuff.

>>2916229
Do you mean making a Roomba from scratch, or a humanoid helper?

>>2916337
you know what thats fine lets make a roomba.
so amazon has that ai worked out pretty well.
in this case the beaglebone blone blue does work. You can connect up to 4 dc to it and 8 servos.
youd need two dc for it to move around.
then theres the lidar and go from there.

>>2916340
forgot my name tag
dunked

>>2916340
You don't even need LIDAR

>>2916349
ultrasonic sensors?
then youd be inventing cause really roombas work with lidar.
But that makes tgem more expensive though.

>>2916350
The robot vacuum I use for Galatea uses simple bumpers. But Ultrasonics can work too. Also, the type I use has two motors for locomotion.

>>2916127
Forgot my name here

>>2916352
ultrasonic would be pretty crappy vs mapping the room with lidar but if its not a carpet house(which i think most houses arent these days) it could be more cost effective and could work with a lot of hacks. Ultrasonic sensors are dirt cheap.

>>2916362
It's true that ultrasonic would be less effective, but it would be far cheaper and easier to use than LIDAR. Ever since I was a kid, I've seen robot kits with ultrasonic sensing that work pretty well. Stick a vacuum on and boom!
Even iRobot (the creators of the roomba) agreed at first, until their competitors started using LIDAR, so they were basically forced to.

>tfw I don't know anything about robots but I have an overwhelming desire to build man-made horrors beyond human comprehension using these shits: https://youtube.com/watch?v=2GFyFmMm9-A

>>2916372
that is probably based on this video right here
https://youtu.be/EUEp-AfvvzE
you attack two strings to a servo to 3d printed tentacle pieces

>>2916466
Monster girl robowaifus are possible!

humanoid and dog robots are completely useless vaporware crap

Coming from only having an electronics/embedded background, how feasible is making something like this? Having close to zero mechanical engineering knowledge, how would you approach this?

>>2919266
hope jr robot is very similar and open source just copy thier stuff and tweak it a bit to fit this

>>2916125 (OP)
I was like wait wut, my Lapis is in there?
Its been 8 years huh? It can still be worked on..
Eventually I may finish it, I hit some difficult hurdles with it and took a break from it

>>2919266
an engineering degree is 4-5 years. The robotwaifu is eternal. hell ive been at it for 2 years. Been programming for more years.
>fuck my shit up senpai
also
>adding wheels to legs instead of feet
and also im studying linear algebra right now and trying to do things right.

>>2919705
i dont know what it is about building a robot that doesnt intimidate me as much as it should. For example i wouldnt take apart my ac to fix the broken leds...

>>2919266
I would say maybe a self-balancing segway-esque design. I don't know how close you have to stick to that design, but the large and presumably heavy body will be a problem. The wheels look like electric scooter wheels.

Video from pic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W5S5nqRegU
There are other designs of self-balancing robot out there

>>2919439
You should definitely continue work on it. If you're busy, you can go at a slow pace

why did they make car robot arms for making a burger

here is my discord
https://discord.gg/V7SVqc44
i would really like the company of some technical ppl.
but be warned i can be really schizo.

>>2920749
most shit could use a simple cartesian robots, but it isnt seen as cool or as modern

>>2923189
just use deltas
simple and cool

finally the best type of general has been made manifest! can anyone recommend me a good starting point for making simple gadgets, small simple robots and ultimately robowaifu? and also automation for smaller companies so I could potentially make moneys out of this (PLC coding and "big" components). current plan is to buy an arduino and grind slowly along with jewtube and chatgpt, but surely a million chad nerds simplified the process by now so that retards like me could digest it within a month. of course this also includes coding for more complex stuff which is why I'd like to learn how microchips work and then actual arduino coding. also this will further help me when making tiny stuff as I'm aware that arduino has huge potential on its own which in turns means "too much potential" for small stuff. main inspirations as of late:
tiny rc stuff: https://www.youtube.com/@diorama111/videos
simple animatronics: https://www.youtube.com/@Melonshu/videos
another thing that troubles me is where to order components. aliexpress takes 3-6 weeks to deliver anything to my shithole and it would be great if I could find a seller in europe even ifs tuff is more expensive.

>>2924578
>not removing the protective film

Im someone interested in making a robot dog, I dont know anything about electronics or embedded engineering but I can code so I'm learning C and going through the make electronics books. I got a bunch of embedded devices like Raspberry Pi zero, pico, ESP32, STM32 Nucleo board.

After that, would I need to learn ROS? Was thinking of getting something like this:

https://store.freenove.com/products/fnk0050

I saw something called SpotMicroAI which looks like what I want (https://spotmicroai.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) however I don't have a 3d printer and it doesn't seem to be up to date

>>2924578
just get off brand arduino nano and code on it blinking lights and stuff to practice coding on it. Then use it to drive servos.

>>2924621
just buy bldc gear motors and driver board to go with that and buy arduino nano to drive the driver board with your arduino nano code. Then talk to the arduino nano board with a main brains pc such as rasberry pi or a mini itx gaming pc running c++ or w/e on windows or linux.

Thread reminder that robotwaifutechnician and Artbyrobot know less than nothing, and their opinions should be disregarded.

>>2924621
You can get a robotics kit from AliExpress or Amazon. They can help you learn the basics of microcontroller robotics

>>2925023
yeah lmao

i am about to buy parts for my first robot and the thing is that it's supposed to be a surface robot, 4-wheeled. depending on the surface, even if the robot will be relatively slow, it will shake/vibrate on the move, which will slowly kill the internals. how do i solve this? rubber rings surely won't be enough?

it's going to be a lightweight robot, so ridiculous shaking is given. then without some kind of isolation, it is supposed to die absolutely fucking immediately.
do i literally have to be a mechanical engineer and at the same time a chemist to even start assuming about what kind of material would suit it and in what shape and form? i am just a progremmur

>>2928018
No you don't you just need to team up. At my job I'm always amazed how thr codeboys can do the things they do and sit through what is the definition of hell for me for an entire day and they feel the same about the hardware people. When the codeboys have to work on a machine they remote into it and stay as far from the lab as possible but once in a while they want a small electronic or mechanical change or suspect a very simple defect and try to acrually touch one of the products and its always funny as hell everyone pretends not to be watching while they literally fight with one (1) simple screw or solder connection for 10 minutes before giving up and asking for help
Idk why this is but people are different and it's good that things are this way.Find your hardware guy, every hardware guy needs his software guy because code just makes them sick but today you dont get anywhere without software.

>>2928053
I don't know how to read the law, it's likely gray area fun. Not some kind of a domestic terrorist, but authorities might get curious. Might not be easy to just find a hardware guy.

I need to know ass much as i can about arduino and servos

>>2928016
>>2928018
I think you are worrying more than is necessary. It's unlikely to die immediately unless you've done something really stupid.
If it's your very first robot, it will survive long enough for you to get what you need from it (learning).

>>2928077
Try and elaborate a bit more on what you're trying to do, and what you already know, and people might have more to give you.

>>2928138
it's not going to be stupid, it's a super intelligent robot, very fast, with a dildo gun, it is supposed to be able to acquire only one target on earth, the most homosexual faggot ever existed the owner can think of. should be able to stream videos live while in action, idk, maybe on chaturbate.
absolute menace, and it must not fail.
wait, dildos. wouldnt that material suit the use case perfectly

so it was supposed to be fru-1, faggot rape unit 1.
but the as a test it can be simpler i guess, it can be hcu-1, homo chase unit 1.
a small autonomous car with a dildo mounted on top. and it needs a loud speaker which will announce on repeat "chasing the biggest homo in the world, chasing the biggest homo in the world, chasing the biggest homo in the world..."
and it needs movement recognition, it then approaches the closest human it finds and starts to move the dildo back and forth, back and forth suggestively, contiuning to announce loudly "chasing the biggest homo in the world, chasing the biggest homo in the world, chasing the biggest homo in the world..."
i think it would be an amazing use case

just imagine when it will be FRU-15000 TURBO ULTRA M3
the future is bright

>>2928382
>>2928392
>>2928397
wtf are you on about?

>>2928445
FRU-15000 will recognize homosexuals by body language. But for now we can just have first recognized human lock-in for HCU-1. or HCU-1000 rather

>>2928139
I know nothing and want to rotate, move stuff, i want things to happen, to give life to, to make something tangable.

>>2928490
Do you have any programming experience?
The guide that got me on my feet with hardware was Paul McWhorter's Arduino course on YouTube. It's definitely flawed in ways, but it really holds your hand and does things step by step exactly, which is useful if you really are starting from nothing. It's based around some $40 kit from Elegoo IIRC.

>>2928498
I know pneumatics and hydraulics

>>2928498
I'll hijack his question if you don't mind and ask the same thing while providing a few more specifics. I'm interested in diy drones and automating small mobile hydroponics systems(for spices and such) using arduino and whatever else is necessary. I have some elementary programming experience in C/C#/Pascal and some electronics experience but it's been almost a decade since I dropped out of electrical engineering for various reasons.
Would you still recommend Paul McWhorter?

>>2928053
FWIW, the ones that refuse to learn the simplest things about hardware and mechanics tend to be incompetent in general. You can have an expertise, but you should try to learn a bit of everything as you go as well. Even as a hardware guy I can program myself out of a ditch if I have to.

>>2929775
Yeah, I recommend him because his course requires so little foreknowledge that it's a good way to make the "leap" into working with hardware. The downside is that it's a little information sparse.
Because of that, you'll find some of the basic programming stuff too slow, but you can put it on 2x speed, have it in the background, or just skip a lesson if you feel confident.
His course isn't specific to drones and doesn't cover pumps, but once you understand the fundamentals you'll understand that it's all pretty much the same.
This is the course I followed. I went about halfway and had what I needed to go from there:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJWR7dBuc18&list=PLGs0VKk2DiYw-L-RibttcvK-WBZm8WLEP
He has a new one, but I can't speak on that because I haven't watched it.

>>2929898
I see. Thanks.

>>2928490
First, I would start with a very basic LED project, then I would move on to servos.

>>2916159
This post is so funny.
>I have an Arduino connected to a few servos
>Time to tackle one of the hardest tasks in robotics
>Lets rock

I need a camera for the end of a robotic arm I'm working with. Here's my wishlist for features:
>Lightweight
>PoE
>IP streaming (don't really care about format or protocol)
>Water resistant
Anyone know of anything that fits the bill? I'm looking at the M5Stack PoE Camera, but it's got no waterproofing. Might just work on waterproofing that instead of trying to find something better. Your thoughts roboGODs?

>>2916127
is this... an anime roomba?

Be real with me /robo/
how far are we from ex machina type robots

>>2930320
Quite far. We still need to make significant advances in grace, prosthetics, and conversational AI to be there.

>>2930320
I already know how to do it 99% and am well on my way to making a human passing humanoid robot but its slow going lately due to other responsibilities taking up my time

>>2930507
Godspeed on your sexbot anon

Why does every poor mexican think they can suddenly do better robotics than everyone else? You won't get your waifu. None of those projects in the OP are finished.

Visual Language Action models are the big hot thing in robotics right now, have any of you tried running some of your own?

I just impaled my left ball

>>2930516
I am opposed to sexbots and my robot is not going to be one.

Oh cool, a robotics general. Glad to see something that isn't (exclusively) artbyrobot's schizophrenia blog.
Who here is working on something cool?

>>2930507
Wire folded in half yet or are you still working on that? How about those glued together sewing bobbins? That was looking like it might go somewhere.

>>2930783
Wish I could tell you about it. I imagine there are a few dozen who see this thread and wish they could tell you about their projects too. I know there are at least 3 academics/industry people who lurk in these. Probably more.

Would making a smart house fit this general?

>>2931220
I'd say if you're just hooking things up to Home Assistant, no, but if you're building your own sensors, then yes. It's close enough and the thread needs more activity.

>>2931227
Great, my case is more of the latter, I work with house automation and recently got a few curious jobs related to monitoring someone inside a house.

>>2928397
>>2928392
>>2928382
This is dumb even for 4chan.

>>2931251
This is reddit even on 4chan. Well, guess what, it will recognize (you) and stress test your ass with military grade precision. You never understood what 4chan was 10 years ago, you never understood what 4chan was 5 years ago, you don't understand 4chan in 2025 and why more people choose to namefag and attach an image to their posts so that filtering bots is easier. You just lack the capacity.
Discussions about things like FAGGOT RAPE UNIT 15000 Turbo Ultra M3 would absolutely drive a reddit person like you away, while incredible technical challenges projects like this face is all people need to think about to create a robust efficient machine. You will end up at PhD level even by just attempting to build these. It's the ultimate test.

>>2931255
Still dumb, but godspeed, anon. Let your autism flow freely.

>>2931229
Well, for my part at least, I'm interested. Who are you monitoring and what equipment will you be building to help with that? Is this a care home type situation?

so apparently there's a fuckton of arduinos out there. which one is best for beginners to see if this stuff is even for me?

>>2931305
>Is this a care home type situation?
It's some fetish stuff, a bit disgusting, but the pay is roughly five times higher than a similar job with healthier aims.

>>2929818
>I can program myself out of a ditch.
Well yeah same here but it aint pretty and it sure as hell stays single thread and all that. The guys im referencing do something very different. I too well remember the looks on the teams faces when I had to program a really small utility and 'uh why dont you use a future here and C++ version 1337 has something specifivally to avoid doing that anon...' and the soldering jobs K was reffering to were trivial but were still talking stuff like 20 hookup wires to some many ass leg QFP with loads of microscoping SMDs and vias all around. You put one on, accidentially rip the last two off and short it all to the power plane.

do a sim on issac and then go down that rabbit hole. no thx. i demand labor.

>>2930331
that's disappointing.
Having an ex machina / detroit:become human style robot seems sick af (minus the chance of death)
I'd much rather AI progress towards helping humans instead of doomsday super death scenarios.
Imagine having a qt robot helper that can do the dishes, laundry, and work around the house. I'd pay >10k for that instantly.

>>2931432
then buy a teslabot next year

>>2931446
I'll buy one after my semi-truck arrives, it'll be delivered by hyperloop

>>2931446
> teslabot
1. Tesla is not a tech company I would consider delivering on it's promises
2. TeslaBot doesn't come anywhere close to what I'm referring to.

>>2931432
They're a cool concept, but when you start thinking of them in realist terms I don't think they are the best fit for most roles.
Most pick and place or manipulation tasks work just as well with a dog+arm form, and as far as companionship, I think you'd feel the same emptiness you would feel with a sex toy or an AI girlfriend. It's a lot easier to just find a decent girlfriend, but it takes the kind of work a lot of people don't want to do.
>>2931451
You have correctly ID'd RWT as a retard who knows nothing but speaks confidently.
Tesla doesn't have anything close to what you're talking about, because the field overall doesn't have anything like that either.
The idea that they do is just something he masturbates to because of his failed sexbot project.

>>2931420
That's kind of boring to me then. That doesn't seem like that would require any sensing over normal cameras and contact sensors.
Doing anything technically interesting with it or did you just want to share the weird use case?

>>2931457
To be fair, I'm not the one responsible for the programming and wanted to share a case.

The idea is to turn a tiny apartment into an "automated cell".

>>2931456
well see next year also making a bet they wont be able to get jailbroken

>>2931456
>Arm-form robot
I can see this working well for some tasks, but it's extremely limited in mobility.
Buying one device that can multirole tasks in the home seems to point to androids.
Washing dishes, placing them in the dishwasher, then placing them back in the cabinet would require a lot more complexity than a single arm would likely do, unless we completely change how we clean dishes.
The same goes for spot cleaning to whole home cleaning. Roomba can only do so much, and are notorious for not being able to clean surfaces without missing areas or intervention to replace filters, water tanks, and trash bins.
I can't imagine a v1.0 being good at all of the tasks but helping would be monumental to a lot of people who need help on top of doing their 9-5.
As for companionship. I haven't thought that far along. I would imagine that most modern LLMs would be adequate for that. Emotional support beyond the basic interactions would require a human. I just don't think a computer would be able to fill that gap.
For sexbots... I have no idea about that. I'm sure some people would love for that to be an additional function, and it could become a common place feature. I just don't know how you go about selling that and I'm sure women's advocacy groups and religious organizations would throw a shitfit over it.

>>2931461
I'm talking about an arm mounted on the back of a dog. It's one of the standard configs that BD Spot offers.
The mobile base increases the envelope of the arm a lot and reduces singularities, and of course it can get around the home is that's what you meant by mobility.
It can multirole like a humanoid could, but it's more stable, more mature of a form, just generally all round better. There's no purpose to humanoids except for anthropomorphism and some equipment that really does rely on human form.
If you think it's because there's only one arm, then remember there are dual arms available, and even if you did have to modify some appliances (which I really do think would be minimal) it would still be less of a cost and an inconvenience to you than building your system as a humanoid.
Humanoids are like robotic implants: look cool, make no sense practically.
Remember on cost as well: it's got to beat a normal maid. It's not an easy task when you're already gimping yourself on the form for sentimental reasons.

>>2931462
Maybe I'm a normie, but seeing this around why house would freak me out, no matter how good it did the dishes.

>>2931464
You've found a spiderbot there. If you're scared of (robot) spiders... well, it's a spiderbot.
This is what the BD Spot with arm looks like.

>>2931410
The Uno R3 is the "OG", probably has the most examples, but it's a bit limited for modern applications. If you want something modern with a massive community and bloatload of examples, get a raspberry pi pico.

Got my servos, time to create walking robot

>>2931410
Any one of the common ones is fine for a beginner. Your first board will be for learning only. The Uno is a good learner board. The Mega is also good. They're both fine.
Don't get caught up on specs when it comes to Arduinos, because the specs on Arduino are always bad for the price. If you do something where that matters later you'll use an ESP (common for hobbyists), STM (industry standard), PIC, whatever, but right now you just need something easy (an Arduino) and something well supported by community guides (probably the Uno).

>>2930294
this is all just scifi jerkoff "i wish the CIA and advertisers could fuck me and be an interloper between me and the rest of the world"
basically an advertising thread

>>2931682
oh no pics no thanks i read that stuff uses assembly and its outdated.

Heres the last thing i did along with printing the ball joint. the ball joint is secret sauce though and i only shared it with ppl at the discord. Not it matter anymore cause i gave up. This is too much work i also dont have enough space in my new apartment.
Thats called a step down buck converter. you might need one if you plan on using batteries. i had to turn the screw like 10 times. Very important if you plan on using one.

>>2931806
I think robots have plenty of applications in industry where actually you really don't want a human physically present, but for consumer robotics like most people here focus on (after all, their only experience with robotics is fiction or daydreaming about being one of those consumers) yes I agree.
For pretty much all cases for consumers, a better appliance is actually the answer, not a robot. For those few cases where a robot is the answer, it's not best for it to be humanoid.

>>2931858
How do you plan on programming without assembly?

>>2931870
assembly is not meant to be used. It didnt last long before that puke got turned into a compiler. Nobody likes assembly.

>>2931874
All of those boards I mentioned use compilers, and you didn't even specify which one you're talking about. Which board do you think makes you program in raw assembly?

>>2931876
only the pics

>>2931877
My bad on that deleted post. I didn't catch you were only talking about PICs. That said...
>>2931874
There are C compilers for PICs. Microchip releases one, and there are others.

>>2931878
not sure if you need an extra chip to use c with pics but still forget about pics their outdated tech.

>>2931880
You'll need the progamming board, but all of these use programming boards. The learner boards just have the programming boards built into the overall board, but OK, don't use the PICs then. I did say you should use the Uno as a beginner anyway, and my personal choice would be the STM.

>>2930783
I've finished my Companion Maid Robot. It is basically a body for AI. I deliberately made it easy to 3d print and assemble, because I want companion robots to be widespread. It also can help with cleaning and home security.

>>2931432
You don't need it to be that realistic in order to do those chores or to be cute

>>2932053
>Home security
Is it armed?

>>2932078
https://youtu.be/iM_un6yHdug

>>2932078
She can serve as a security camera and an alarm

>>2916128
Can I make the printed parts out of PLA or do I need to use something like ABS?

>>2932820
Tougher than PLA for anything that can get thrashed. I'd do PETG myself; ABS is a PITA to print with.

>>2933329
buy abs+

>no we cant use the nvidia stack
>no we need to use resin printers
>Ai ai ai ai

How challenging would it be to make a Freddy Fazbear? Is it really just as simple as making chatgpt come up with the coding, loading it up on Arduino, buying a standard kit, buying a 3d printer, buying the files from etsy for the schematic for the 3d printer, and putting everything together with said overpriced schematics?

>>2933823
and making an alkaline battery is just a metal rod with minerals. Whats your point?