[HN Gopher] Dingo, an open source robot dog
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       Dingo, an open source robot dog
        
       Author : stingrae
       Score  : 29 points
       Date   : 2023-06-14 17:59 UTC (4 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (github.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | neatze wrote:
       | There 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...
       | 
       | [2]https://github.com/mangdangroboticsclub
        
       | srgpqt wrote:
       | Warning: this page loads a 7.86 MB picture of the robot.
        
         | seabass-labrax wrote:
         | If 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.
        
           | srgpqt wrote:
           | Yeah that's not going to work on most mobile devices.
        
           | lordofgibbons wrote:
           | Curious if it replace it with an empty block that takes up
           | the same space so the layout doesn't change?
        
       | chfritz wrote:
       | Nice! Does it support adding a camera (usb/ip)?
        
         | DougN7 wrote:
         | It has external USB and ethernet ports, and showed some
         | additional power ports available inside.
        
       | syedkarim wrote:
       | Is a robo-dog able to navigate terrain and obstacles better than
       | a machine with tracks?
        
       | dang wrote:
       | Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KntOIgzUjY
       | 
       | (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36299315, but no
       | comments there)
        
       | crampsframpt wrote:
       | Is all the vscode stuff required?
        
         | willbudd wrote:
         | Of 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 wrote:
           | What's the benefit of developing inside the container instead
           | of just linking the filesystem?
        
       | fbdab103 wrote:
       | For 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.
        
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