Openbot: Turning Smartphones into Robots

Re:Openbot: Turning Smartphones into Robots by monkeydust on Friday August 28, 2020 @06:27AM (#24303298)

After watching the video I wanted to build and play with this. Impressive project and the democratization of robotics is a great mission to be on.

BTW if I wanted to buy the body (I dont have a 3d printer) is there a way to do that (or could there be through some collective scheme?)

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Re:Openbot: Turning Smartphones into Robots by rokobobo on Friday August 28, 2020 @02:43PM (#24308520)

If you're asking about the 3d printed part alone, you could find some stuff on Amazon [1] for a reasonable price and hoist the smartphone with any old phone stand you might have lying around and a couple of rubber bands.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/wheel-layer-Chassis-Encoder-Arduino/d...

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Re:Openbot: Turning Smartphones into Robots by re_riley on Friday August 28, 2020 @11:49AM (#24306288)

Hit up Robots Everywhere, we've been making these for 10 years.

https://www.robots-everywhere.com/products/antbot-rover

You can probably modify their firmware once they get it running to run on our boards if you want.

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Re:Openbot: Turning Smartphones into Robots by ragebol on Friday August 28, 2020 @08:16AM (#24303939)

Order the the 3D print through Shapeways or find a printer in eg. a makerspace?

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