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Dingo, an open source robot dog
- chfritz 3y agoNice! Does it support adding a camera (usb/ip)?
- DougN7 3y agoIt has external USB and ethernet ports, and showed some additional power ports available inside.
- srgpqt 3y agoWarning: this page loads a 7.86 MB picture of the robot.
- seabass-labrax 3y agoIf you're short of bandwidth or limited by a quota, uBlock Origin can be toggled easily between allowing or blocking all images. It's what I use to make my 750MiB per month GSM/4G connection last.
- lordofgibbons 3y agoCurious if it replace it with an empty block that takes up the same space so the layout doesn't change?
- gorhill 3y agoThere is an option to block media elements larger than a set size[1]. When a media element is blocked through this setting, the element is replaced with a click-to-load widget, so the layout shouldn't change with this option. [1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Per-site-switches#no-large-media-elements https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Per-site-switches#no-...
- srgpqt 3y agoYeah that’s not going to work on most mobile devices.
- northwest65 3y agoWhy not?
- brutal_chaos_ 3y agoFirefox on Android with uBlock Origin does indeed work. And, if I'm not mistaken, aren't most devices Androids? Edit to Add: TBF, most users may not have the technical know-how to use it in this way.
- seabass-labrax 3y agoThis year the market share of the Apple iPhone line exceeded 50% in the UK, and in the USA last year. So, sadly, parent is kind of right :(
- ramraj07 3y agoWhat part of the internet do you use nowadays if 8 MB scares you?
- dang 3y agoVideo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KntOIgzUjY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KntOIgzUjY (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36299315 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36299315, but no comments there)
- crampsframpt 3y agoIs all the vscode stuff required?
- willbudd 3y agoOf course it isn't, but limiting installation instructions to the creation of a single well-defined Docker container makes a whole lot of sense in terms of avoiding reproducibility headaches. And by extension, with regard to make development inside a container a pleasant experience, VS Code is currently the only game in town. And I say that as someone who spent two decades getting comfortable with vim.
- Kiro 3y agoWhat's the benefit of developing inside the container instead of just linking the filesystem?
- neatze 3y agoI don't want to install anything on my system, want to keep clean and as minimal as possible, containers full fill my OCD in this regard, I run most app's now in containers too, it is best linux setup I ever had in my life :)
- willbudd 3y agoI have no idea what you mean by "just linking the filesystem".
- makeitdouble 3y agoNot having to screw with your system's dependecies and spend time making sure everything is aligned with the expected environment. Ansible like tools could help you make the setup repeatable, but being containerized also avoids all the processor architecture and system libraries gotchas.
- kortex 3y agoROS is verrrrrrry opinionated and a pain to set up in an orthogonal way to other ROS installs. It's also tied very heavily to ubuntu/debian. Putting it all into containers makes many things so much easier (it makes a few things harder, or at least it did on ros1, hopefully that's been ironed out in ros2)
- fbdab103 3y agoFor anyone else who was curious and did not want to download an Excel file to read the table, parts will set you back $1300. Plus, who knows how much printing time.
- quickthrower2 3y agoQuite affordable as a pet: it is less than a real dog from a dog breeder :-).
- loloquwowndueo 3y agoOr you could adopt for a nominal fee and help a dog in need.
- rabiddmeese 3y agoA real dog is way more responsibility - you gotta walk it, feed it, keep it clean and healthy. It's quite expensive even if you adopt and it is no small task. A robo dog at worse is a few hundred in parts - no worse than a single vet visit and charging the battery.
- loloquwowndueo 3y agoYeah I meant adopting instead of buying a dog from a breeder as the comment I replied to was suggesting.
- anaganisk 3y agoSuggesting random people to adopt a pet, is in my opinion wrong, unless you know the person well. Pets are not a thing, they need care, responsibility, time, additional budget and other factors you could include if you are gonna have a baby.
- loloquwowndueo 3y agoYeah I meant adopting instead of buying a dog from a breeder as the comment I replied to was suggesting.
- neatze 3y agoThere is also minipupper2[1] (I have minipupper1, waiting for version2), v2 has servos feedback (I think this first of kind in cheapest robots space), furthermore all minipupper1 hardware is also open-sourced on github[2], it is expected to be same for v2 version. [1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/336477435/mini-pupper-2-open-source-ros2-robot-kit-for-dreamers https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/336477435/mini-pupper-2... [2]https://github.com/mangdangroboticsclub https://github.com/mangdangroboticsclub
- BigElephant 3y agoCan you share how much it cost to build out minipupper1?
- neatze 3y agoeverything included in package, I paid (including taxes, shipping): $529 - Pupper with Ri $129 - Lidar $148 - 3D Camera
- syedkarim 3y agoIs a robo-dog able to navigate terrain and obstacles better than a machine with tracks?
- marcosdumay 3y agoIf the feet get any bit of adherence (I dunno about those plastic feet), they can through much more diverse terrain, it's not even close. But actual navigation is software related.
- quickthrower2 3y agoA Dingo is a shy (with humans), wild dog in Australia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingo. I saw once once, but it was about maybe 100-200 metres away.
- anamexis 3y agoInternationally, probably best known (unfortunately) for eating a baby. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingo_ate_my_baby https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingo_ate_my_baby
- naetius 3y agoThe dingo ate your baby!
- makeitdouble 3y agoReference to the 1980 case where the mother wrongly went to prison on top of losing her child, mostly because her claim was too memeable. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingo_ate_my_baby https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingo_ate_my_baby
- npsomaratna 3y agoIt's also a reference to a Seinfeld episode: https://youtu.be/sYTIGXvc88Y?t=7 https://youtu.be/sYTIGXvc88Y?t=7
- taneq 3y agoAnd to the band in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Both of which reference the original case, which became a meme because the woman’s claim was seen as so unbelievable. And then nearly a decade later it was found that she was telling the truth.
- worik 3y agoWhy four legs? Once the expense of four has been invested is there a better number, say six or eight, to have? I can imagine all sorts of advantages and disadvantages. They choose four, is that because four is best? Or because a dog has four?
- anamexis 3y agoI am also curious about educated answers to this question, but I imagine taking a cue from millions of years of evolutionary pressure is a pretty solid bet.
- fbdab103 3y agoEvolutionary technical debt is a thing. Many local optimum were locked into the gene pool due to random chance.
- makeitdouble 3y ago8 legs are also well representated and going strong for millions of years, not to mention carcinisation being a meme at this point. When it comes to robotics, my best guess would be cost and complexity. We also either need a better control interface or better self driving software to take advantage of the legs moving independently (I assume optimizing how the 8 legs should move to climb a rocky path for instance is just a computational nightmare to do realtime)
- taneq 3y agoLegs are expensive. You need at at least three high performance actuators plus position sensing etc. Each leg also adds weight and power drain. Two is way hard. Six or more is also hard if you want to do it properly over rough terrain. Four is a sweet spot for human-scale robots.
- Xen9 3y agoImagine living alone in Russia and having few Dingos to carry meat and fish from hunting and fishing trips, and wood, etc. --- Without reading the actual code, the structure of the system looks very clear, pleasant to understand. It's not a mess.
- villgax 3y agoWish they had SimpleFOC based control instead of servo motors