Totes in the Wild

Published on 2015-08-28 in Tote.

The main goal of all this work I’m doing on Tote is to make people build their own robots. The idea is that they can start with Tote (or the elements of Tote that they like), and grow from there. Unfortunately, so far nobody that I know of decided to try it. Until recently.

I got e-mails from at least two people who are now working on their robots more or less based on Tote.

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The first one is project-6877 built by @wagner . He used a permaboard instead of a PCB for the body, and translated the walking code from C++ into Micropython, to use with his pyBoard. Last time I heard from him he still had some problems with the code, but I hope he will get them resolved.

The second robot, project-7473 , made by @Over.Unity , also uses a permaboard for its body, but uses a Pro Mini just like Tote. I got permission to show you a gallery of photos of the robot . It walks around pretty well now!

I’ve also seen some comments under the post on Hackaday.com from people thinking about building their robots, but I’ve never heard from them again. If you are building a robot based on or even just inspired by Tote, please let me know! I’d love to hear about it, and see photos and videos of it.

Update: project-7473 has its project page now and is finished.