A group of students at the Stanford University Student Robotics group have developed a lightweight, open source quadruped robot design. They’ve called it the Pupper and it runs from a Raspberry Pi 4. The cost for the Pupper is between $600 and $900, depending on the quantities involved. The best part of it is that they have extensively documented the build process over on their website. From there, you can find a bill of materials, build instructions, CAD models and PCB designs and they have released all the code necessary on GitHub. A quick video of the Pupper is below:
If walking robots is your thing, you might also be interested in one of this year’s Pi Wars entrants: Spot Puppy, designed and built by Josh and Jeremy Pattman which you can see below. I know which I think is cuter :p
Hi
I’m glad to see that you will still be covering Raspberry Pi, I was a little concerned that it would be left to fall a little by the wayside with all the potential other new sources available.
Still following many years after I first found your blog.
Best
Greg
Hi Greg. Nah, first love is still the Pi, just recognising that sometimes it’s not the answer to everything. Still going to cover the Pi, but everything might be a bit sporadic!