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> the "Nano Dog" is probably a cheaper and more approachable option for the garage engineer. Hard to find out much about that or OpenDog in general. I've found

> the "Nano Dog" is probably a cheaper and more approachable option for the garage engineer. Hard to find out much about that or OpenDog in general. I've found videos and 3d printer files but nothing that I can read to understand what it can do and why I might want to build it. Or do I really have to watch a bunch of YouTube videos? I hate video. Have I missed the actual project page somehow?

n0us 7y ago
Good point, now that I am searching for it I cannot seem to find the code. At the same time it still does not require custom manufactured parts or circuit boards which makes the barrier to entry (and importantly price) a bit lower unless the Stanford folks setup a store. I make an internet promise here and now that if I ever build the robot I'll open source the source code to control it.
rspicer 7y ago
https://github.com/XRobots/miniDogV2 https://github.com/XRobots/miniDogV2 The code's a bit of a mess -- James is clearly not a software engineer first. This is totally understandable, given that he does so many other things! When I first saw the code, I thought about doing a refactoring pass and making a pull request. It would be painful to test correctness without the hardware, and I don't want to make things worse, so I haven't.
- monocasa 7y ago
  Oh wow, you're not joking. I'm getting flashbacks to when I supported a team of EEs.
  - dmoy 7y ago
    Hell, I'm getting flashbacks to my own code in EE lab. Except this stuff looks way less messy, not nearly enough random assembly declarations to bludgeon a register or pin into submission.
- rlayton2 7y ago
  It's probably also worth mentioning the project is a work in progress, and from the videos, it looks like OpenDog is likely to undergo at least one more major change before "completion".
- rspicer 7y ago
  For future reference, I saw "OpenDog" and thought we were discussing James Bruton's (XRobots) OpenDog/Mini-Dog, which is where the firmware I linked above comes from. NanoDog is something different, apparently! Sorry for any confusion I might've caused there.
- p1necone 7y ago
  brb building automatic testing environment with dog physics simulation
- t_von_doom 7y ago
  As someone who also isn't a SWE first, what are the changes you'd make and where can one learn to code in a more SWE way?

n0us 7y ago

Good point, now that I am searching for it I cannot seem to find the code. At the same time it still does not require custom manufactured parts or circuit boards which makes the barrier to entry (and importantly price) a bit lower unless the Stanford folks setup a store. I make an internet promise here and now that if I ever build the robot I'll open source the source code to control it.

rspicer 7y ago

https://github.com/XRobots/miniDogV2 https://github.com/XRobots/miniDogV2 The code's a bit of a mess -- James is clearly not a software engineer first. This is totally understandable, given that he does so many other things! When I first saw the code, I thought about doing a refactoring pass and making a pull request. It would be painful to test correctness without the hardware, and I don't want to make things worse, so I haven't.

monocasa 7y ago
Oh wow, you're not joking. I'm getting flashbacks to when I supported a team of EEs.
- dmoy 7y ago
  Hell, I'm getting flashbacks to my own code in EE lab. Except this stuff looks way less messy, not nearly enough random assembly declarations to bludgeon a register or pin into submission.
rlayton2 7y ago
It's probably also worth mentioning the project is a work in progress, and from the videos, it looks like OpenDog is likely to undergo at least one more major change before "completion".
rspicer 7y ago
For future reference, I saw "OpenDog" and thought we were discussing James Bruton's (XRobots) OpenDog/Mini-Dog, which is where the firmware I linked above comes from. NanoDog is something different, apparently! Sorry for any confusion I might've caused there.
p1necone 7y ago
brb building automatic testing environment with dog physics simulation
t_von_doom 7y ago
As someone who also isn't a SWE first, what are the changes you'd make and where can one learn to code in a more SWE way?