Earlier quoted context omitted.
what do you mean about my SO? I was referring to myself
Sorry but you did refer to yourself at the third person as "she", so how was anyone supposed to know?
I was correcting "his iPhone or MacBook"
Petoi Bittle – a programmable robot dog
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#22I 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
Looks like a cool platform, but you won't be paying $1600 USD https://shop.unitree.com/en-gb/products/unitree-go2?variant=... :
> $1,600.00 USD
> Shipping costs $399 per unit, Remote Countries $500-$1000
> Not include customs duties, Please comply with local customs laws pay customs duties and clear the goods
By the time you are done, you will be paying between $2000 and $3500 for the base model. It might still represent good value, but it's still more than it is advertised.
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#23Is 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?
I wouldn't say it is monstrously expensive, but it is kind of underwhelming at that price point. It doesn't even have three degrees of freedom on its legs, which is what I would expect on a basic quadruped.
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#24Is 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?
bro how much did you pay for your car that is presumably around 1000kg?
I'm not sure that is a good comparison. My old car cost ~$500 and weighed about 1000kg. If anything that is a comment on consumerism and not the value of things.
The value of this platform comes from the R&D, scale, support, packaged software, etc, etc.
Assuming they sell 10000 units at an average ~$300. At that scale likely a $100 of each unit is in parts/tooling, then assembly/flashing/testing. That's approximately $20mn to be split by:
1. Likely minimum team of 10 people on development for 4 years, at ~$100k per year (with overheads), for $4mn. Kickstarter in 2020: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/petoi/bittle
2. Investors probably threw in $4mn along the way and look to claw that back (couldn't find investment info on a quick search).
3. Tax appears to be ~20% in most places, so 20% of $30mn is $6mn.
Leaving approximately $6mn, everybody gets a bump and they are left with enough to expand and run the company for ~2-4 years without needing to raise additional investment. That's a lot of pressure to get a new product out there.
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#25They 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?:)
Re: Petoi Bittle – a programmable robot dog
#26They 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?:)
Looks like they also have a robot cat https://www.petoi.com/products/petoi-nybble-robot-cat
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#29They 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?:)
Looks like they also have a robot cat https://www.petoi.com/products/petoi-nybble-robot-cat
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#30I 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.