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Re: Microduck

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It's either this or https://mondorobotics.com/ and I'm torn. Obviously it's for my daughter and I will just be safety checking, definitely, 100%.

As a kick-starter project is this thing actually real? My experience with kick-starter has been that the projects are almost universally faked.

totally, it's on MKBKD video posted in other comments. I watched it last week and hence why I'm split

Re: Microduck

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I hope it’s not built on ROS or rely on it in any way!

Also kudos for bringing the joy of robotics back, since now most companies are riding the “defense” bandwagon and all robot companies I know suddenly are defense companies and visiting their sites is like the most dystopian thing ever, making it harder to find contract/jobs for people who want to make robotics for good not killing machines.

Re: Microduck

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It's either this or https://mondorobotics.com/ and I'm torn. Obviously it's for my daughter and I will just be safety checking, definitely, 100%.

That's a completely different class of robot. The Beni robot is just a toy, it's just connect the app and drive it around, record videos and do some fancy tricks like flips. It is not meant to be a platform you program yourself. The Microduck is meant to be a hacker toy. Train it yourself, write software, hack it, etc. It depends what you're trying to get for your daughter. Is it something to get her into robotics? T…

yes to both :)

Re: Microduck

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It's either this or https://mondorobotics.com/ and I'm torn. Obviously it's for my daughter and I will just be safety checking, definitely, 100%.

Will Beni/monodorobotics have open source software, or at least a hackable stack?

Hey we're on HN where __anything__ is hackable :)

(Except iDevices of course)

Re: Microduck

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It's either this or https://mondorobotics.com/ and I'm torn. Obviously it's for my daughter and I will just be safety checking, definitely, 100%.

I got this for my kids https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doly/doly-more-than-a-r... earlier this year (after a much longer than expected wait on Kickstarter)...was good for a bit and had some fun but mostly gathering dust now. Occasionally will come out if friends are over.

Re: Microduck

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Basic great usecase (not just fun things): IF you can control it remote, you can check your flat if you are gone for a little bit longer.

Yeah, totally, it could even scale the stairs if needed. How about battery life though, can it go to sleep then be woken up on demand?

Re: Microduck

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Waiting for robot vacuum cleaners to come with extension ports where you can add fun robot actuators.

I have already added googly eyes to mine to give it a bit of a flair. It's hilarious to watch it roam around.

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this looks 100x better than Casio's https://www.casio.com/us/moflin/

It's a different target market I guess. I welcome innovation like this - it's possibly tackling the loneliness epidemic in however small ways.

Re: Microduck

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I hope it’s not built on ROS or rely on it in any way! Also kudos for bringing the joy of robotics back, since now most companies are riding the “defense” bandwagon and all robot companies I know suddenly are defense companies and visiting their sites is like the most dystopian thing ever, making it harder to find contract/jobs for people who want to make robotics for good not killing machines.

Its not https://github.com/pollen-robotics/microduck
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