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mobeets wrote: post #111

I genuinely could not tell if this was a parody/satire or not, I think because the aesthetic reminds me of how a product like this would be presented in a horror movie or something

It look like a disney animatronic it seems Open Duck Mini is it's predecessor

https://github.com/apirrone/Open_Duck_Mini

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cfIm06tcfA

Re: Microduck

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Post by disdi89 » Fri, Aug 28, 2026, 5:49 AM UTC

I still prefer (https://roboracer.ai/) 1:10 racing platform well known in academic circles as RoboRacer, F1TENTH, f1tenth, or F1/10.

Re: Microduck

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Post by protocolture » Fri, Aug 28, 2026, 5:50 AM UTC

I like the big OPEN SOURCE words all over the place, but is the case and full part list open anywhere? I honestly couldnt spot them on github.

Re: Microduck

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Post by protocolture » Fri, Aug 28, 2026, 5:53 AM UTC

_carbyau_ wrote: post #194

toasty228 wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Both are expensive e waste, companies come up every 5 years with these "house robots for kids", they're used for about 5 days, I've seen the cycle many times already

I love Battletech. If the IP holders ever get their shit together and have a properly walking Vulture/Mad-Dog, I'm sold. Bonus points for laser tag capability like those tabletop tanks.

>If the IP holders ever get their shit together

Well they have had a lot of time to get their shit together, and its not even happened a little tiny bit.

But maybe one day they will die? And when the Mormon church inherits the IP they might use it a bit better.

Re: Microduck

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Post by zombot » Fri, Aug 28, 2026, 6:03 AM UTC

Help! I'm being assaulted by some kind of animated GIF and it makes my browser completely unresponsive. I had to kill that tab after clicking the link.

Vastly overdoing the ad part and making the user curse you in the dirtiest gutter language is the way to go. pollen-robotics.com has been etched in my memory forever.

Re: Microduck

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Post by boguscoder » Fri, Aug 28, 2026, 6:05 AM UTC

d4rkp4ttern wrote: post #147

Hmm first I thought it’s just $400 but with shipping 30 and duties 80 it’s more like $510

Question is how long it takes before you need a subscription or get paperweight like owners of Anki robots

Re: Microduck

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Post by ta8903 » Fri, Aug 28, 2026, 6:12 AM UTC

sowrabh wrote: post #46

quadrature wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For what it’s worth the mondo team has been posting development log videos on Reddit since before they incorporated. They raised money so they now have ads with more production value, but they came from small beginnings and I do trust their product.

FWIW Beni also figured in MKBHD's review recently and he had good things to say about it too - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfmdXPT7nAM&t=590s

It's funny how he also mentioned it looked like a scam from the promotional material.

Re: Microduck

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Post by imtringued » Fri, Aug 28, 2026, 6:21 AM UTC

Philip-J-Fry wrote: post #44

Depurator wrote: post #11

neat! since its written in rust, why not use https://github.com/eclipse-iceoryx/iceoryx2 for ipc?

Because now you're locked into the Rust ecosystem. JSONRPC over Unix sockets is a better interface for language agnostic IPC.

How does a cross language IPC library being written in Rust lock you into the Rust ecosystem if you can use it in C++ and other programming languages listed here https://github.com/eclipse-iceoryx/iceoryx2#language-binding....

You have to engage in a significant amount of motivated reasoning to believe that.