christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times
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JUST UNDER THE WIRE! 52 robots in 52 weeks. I got this one working at 8:58 (9pm deadline), which meant no time for paint or cool details. I did a lot of thinking about this one, I really wanted to do an origami finger or hand, but didn't have time.
Sometimes in robotics you will come across people who think software is some special tier of engineering apart from mechanical and electrical engineering. Of course a robot is all three and no one is more important than another.
What is it? are you going to take a look back in my timeline to see? 50-some-odd robots in 52 weeks (2026 challenge) kick it like its 1986!
Updates on the quadruped robot: I am about ready for final assembly and a proper test of the new motors, though that will have to wait until <gestures vaguely>. #robot #robotics #3dPrinting
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Adventures in robotics and AI on a shoestring budget. SFF Fiction and occasional video game appreciation.
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Low cost Makiina arms, built in Finland, doing actuator ring stack assembly (I think). More robots building robots. 1x speed and autonomous From Fayez Salka on X
Latest dev platform for #ros2 RTK debuging and testing. Not fancy, but it was time to throw something together and get in the field
The pcb chassis/ mount plate seems good! Next wire up motors and try for actual movement
Pico platform dev kit for the sowbot.co.uk project. Still some slightly annoying software bits to do before it works
Rearranged the sowbot.co.uk 'brain' to get it to fit inside a waterproof enclosure #robotics #ros2 #modular
Nathan Charles and Utsav Adhikari will present their work on “ROS2 GPS-based Autonomous Vehicle Navigation in the Agriculture and Livestock Space” at the 2026 TXST STEM Conference: From Lab to Landscape: genstem.cose.txst.edu/txst-stem-co... #ros2 #AUV #GPS #engineering #research #txst
Alan Winfield (@alan-winfield.bsky.social) is Professor of Robot Ethics at @uwebristolofficial.bsky.social. He co-founded the Bristol Robotics Lab, where his research is focussed on the science, engineering and ethics of cognitive robotics. Listen to our chat here: www.robottalk.org/2026/03/13/e...
This might be interesting for open hardware enjoyers www.arduino.cc/product-vent... (assuming it actually is open hardware once released)
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Updated the 'brain' and 'pico' robot BOM on sowbot.co.uk might try and get the Pico actually running tomorow
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Updated this list of open hardware #robot electronics a bit github.com/samuk/list_o...
GitHub - samuk/list_of_robot_electronics: A curated list of awesome open source electronic resources for robotics
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Messing about with robots continues, this one doesn't work yet, pending github.com/Agroecology-... #ros2 #agbot #sowbot #robotics
Show HN: Sowbot – Open-hardware agricultural robot (ROS2, RTK GPS) https://sowbot.co.uk/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47123894
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State of the Browser is sold out in-person, but £20 will buy you a whole day of online talks by industry experts. 2026.stateofthebrowser.com
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Current thinking about a 2026 ROS bringup github.com/Agroecology-... Then gradual migration to github.com/openrr/openrr + github.com/openrr/openrr as they (and hopefully I) mature. Project is sowbot.co.uk Worth it, or just start as you mean to go on? #ros2 #rust #robotics cc @sequoia.farm
you design 2-layer PCBs because you're good at making efficient layouts. I design 2-layer PCBs because I'm a cheapass. We are not the same
Been working on the robot brain.. Some docs for it here sowbot.co.uk plan is to build an #Opensource Agbot #Robots #ROS2 #OpenHardware
✨ New bonus episode! ✨ I asked roboticists what is well known in their field of robotics, but outsiders find surprising. Their answers touch on technical challenges, societal impact, and even students' expectations. 🎧 Listen here: www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-... #Robots #Robotics
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Tomorrow my plan is to - fork a version of the controller software for the 8 channel servo board. - put an 8 channel servo board on the robot. - work out the extents for the servos - modify the servo board with walk sequencing software. - finish the robot.
Hi, @octostudioapp.bsky.social and @cocubefun.bsky.social. We love this photo with the MicroBlocks logo in the back.
playback from realtime trainer recording! I can also do waypoints that are linearally interpolated. (realtime is just a fast stream of the same interpolation)