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Tutorial: overmold your 3D-printed parts with soft urethane rubber

Tutorial: overmold your 3D-printed parts with soft urethane rubber

Here is how I made rubberized rollers for my omniwheel home robot. I’ve tried three or more overmolding techniques and concluded that applying urethane rubber overmolding to omni-wheel rollers has...

Ilia Ilia
02 Oct 2023
Snoopy plays ball, hides, self-drives in VR sim

Snoopy plays ball, hides, self-drives in VR sim

Watch Snoopy-the-pet-robot self-drive around a simulated living room, hide under the table (as in hide-and-seek), play ball and “prompt” humans to play. I sped up the videos 4x.

Ilia Ilia
22 Sep 2023
The Network Architecture

The Network Architecture

Here is the current network connections architecture for Kaia.ai platform.

Ilia Ilia
21 Sep 2023
Snoopy BoM Cost Breakdown

Snoopy BoM Cost Breakdown

Snoopy’s hardware BoM (bill of materials) adds up to around $200. Here is the minimum BoM breakdown!

Ilia Ilia
20 Sep 2023
3D-printable omni-wheel

3D-printable omni-wheel

This is a 12-roller robot 3D-printed DIY omni-wheel - a part of Kiddo companion robot. This open-source design incudes 3MF, STL, STEP and SolidWorks files.

Ilia Ilia
14 Sep 2023
Meet Snoopy the pet robot!

Meet Snoopy the pet robot!

Meet Snoopy, an open-source pet robot! Snoopy is a 300mm, round-base, mid-size DIY 3D-printable indoor pet robot compatible with Kaia.ai software platform.

Ilia Ilia
12 Sep 2023