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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
Loki 200mm, Fido pet robot build, bring-up instructions

Loki 200mm, Fido pet robot build, bring-up instructions

Here is Loki, a 200mm pet robot. Loki’s dimensions is small enough to fit the widely used 210x250mm and 220x220mm 3D print volumes, so you don’t have to invest in...

Ilia Ilia
24 Sep 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