Robot Gift Guide 2022
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Robot Gift Guide 2022
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#2Does anyone have advice on whether the Lego Spike kits are actually good for home use? (In my case, for a 9 year old who is very Lego-proficient and has some basic Scratch skills.) They seem very structured for classroom use, but I keep thinking they should probably be flexible enough for to build some fun and crazy bots at home...
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#3Can anyone here recommend the best entry point into robotics for adults? I'd like something where I can start with Python, then potentially dig into the ROS and add more accessories over time.
Background is that I'm a software engineer.
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#4I really want a functioning vacuum robot (as in the vacuum works great) with a good API.
The closest thing I’ve seen is Roborocks Socket API.
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#5Does anyone have advice on whether the Lego Spike kits are actually good for home use? (In my case, for a 9 year old who is very Lego-proficient and has some basic Scratch skills.) They seem very structured for classroom use, but I keep thinking they should probably be flexible enough for to build some fun and crazy bots at home...
Hardware wise they're pretty similar to the Mindstorms kit, just more colorful. Not the exact same, but close. And I think the firmware is different, but you can swap it out for the Mindstorms firmware.
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#6I really want a functioning vacuum robot (as in the vacuum works great) with a good API. The closest thing I’ve seen is Roborocks Socket API.
Not sure what you'd want to do with the project if it's already a 'great vaccuum'.
There's this https://github.com/Sollimann/CleanIt for iRobot or 'Valetudo' for Xiaomi, which may be at the very least hackable, if not have good APIs.
And there are of course projects to build your own https://github.com/awesome-vacuum/awesome-vacuum
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#7Can anyone here recommend the best entry point into robotics for adults? I'd like something where I can start with Python, then potentially dig into the ROS and add more accessories over time. Background is that I'm a software engineer.
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#8I really want a functioning vacuum robot (as in the vacuum works great) with a good API. The closest thing I’ve seen is Roborocks Socket API.
I don’t think it’s a public API but you can easily hack the Eufy 30C. I have been using mine with home assistant automations for a few years now. It’s cheap but I love it and I’m honestly considering buying another one. It has gotten a little noisy after 3 years.
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#9Can anyone here recommend the best entry point into robotics for adults? I'd like something where I can start with Python, then potentially dig into the ROS and add more accessories over time. Background is that I'm a software engineer.
Do you want to build the hardware? Cuz if not, Gazebo's [1] a great starting point to just play with the software/build your own. Built from the ground up deeply integrated with ROS.
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#10I really want a functioning vacuum robot (as in the vacuum works great) with a good API. The closest thing I’ve seen is Roborocks Socket API.
Not sure what you'd want to do with the project if it's already a 'great vaccuum'. There's this https://github.com/Sollimann/CleanIt for iRobot or 'Valetudo' for Xiaomi, which may be at the very least hackable, if not have good APIs. And there are of course projects to build your own https://github.com/awesome-vacuum/awesome-vacuum
A great vacuum as in it can suck dirt. That's all. CleanIt for example, only works with iRobot Create i.e. no vacuum.
Cool open-source hardware projects in awesome-vacuum though. I'd love to abstract away atleast the hardware vacuum parts if possible.