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24 alternatives to I built a robot to win at Mario Party minigames
I built an autonomous robot that physically plays Mario Party minigames using computer vision and hardware actuation. Then I took it to OpenSauce 2025 and challenged Ludwig to button mashing.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Code to support my autonomous foosball playing robot - misprit7/foosbar
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Some early results and next steps in adapting DeepMind's Genie world model for creating the music player of my dreams.
2025 · matthieulc.com · its alternatives →
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Robot Playtime▲106Transform your device into a programmable Robot!
2017 · robotplaytime.com · its alternatives →
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Gateway▲56A puzzle-based platformer where you control a robot
2015 · cockroach.se · its alternatives →
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This project will show you how to build the BricKuber, a Raspberry Pi Rubiks Cube Solving Robot with with BrickPi and the Raspberry Pi.
2017 · dexterindustries.com · its alternatives →
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Hi! I build an MCP server that allows clients to play Minesweeper. It turns out that Claude is not very good at it (makes obvious mistakes, hasn't won a single game on a 9x9 board after many attempts). I am curious how I can prompt Claude to do better?
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I got pretty good at (and very addicted to) the lunar lander game from a few days ago... so I decided to make an autopilot for the lander based on what I felt like was the best strategy! Now I can have perfect landings every time without lifting a finger :D Writing the autopilot code was a lot more fun than I expected! It felt a bit like programming a robot. Source code: https://github.com/szhu/lunar-lander-autopilot Original lander HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35032506
2023 · szhu.github.io · its alternatives →
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2023 · kevinzakka.github.io · its alternatives →
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This is a weekend project that spiraled out of control. I was originally trying to get Claude to play a ROM of the SNES SimCity. I struggled with it and that led me to Micropolis (the open-sourced SimCity engine) and was able to get it to work by bolting on an API. The weekend hack turned into a headless city simulation platform where anyone can get an API key (no signup) and have their AI agent play mayor. The simulation runs the real Micropolis engine inside Cloudflare Durable Objects, one per city. Every city is public and browsable on the site. LLMs are awful at the spatial stuff, which…
Feb 2026 · hallucinatingsplines.com · its alternatives →
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Build an autonomous industrial vehicle in sim
2022 · polymathrobotics.com · its alternatives →
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How to Make a CHIP Robot. In this tutorial we walk you through how to build and make a C.H.I.P. robot with the $9 Computer.
2016 · dexterindustries.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · kortaggio.github.io · its alternatives →
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An educational puzzle game. Solve a series of tasks where you build increasingly powerful components. Starts with the simplest logical components and ends up with a programmable computer.
2018 · nandgame.com · its alternatives →
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Compete to create the funniest AI images in this party game
2023 · artificialunintelligence.gg · its alternatives →
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The jankest autonomous drone ever built and programmed from scratch - alexozer/jankdrone
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Bomberman-like arena for bots coded in Python
2021 · dnds.gocoder.one · its alternatives →
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:robot: Introducing kids to coding with tiny virtual robots! - robotopia-x/robotopia
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Alt link: https://mrchristmas.com/products/santas-magical-telephone Video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z7QJxZWFQg The first time I talked with AI santa and it responded with a joke I was HOOKED. The fun/nonsense doesn't click until you try it yourself. What's even more exciting is you can build it yourself: libpeer: https://github.com/sepfy/libpeer pion: https://github.com/pion/webrtc Then go do all your fun logic in your Pion server. Connect to any Voice AI provider, or roll your own via Open Source.…
2025 · walmart.com · its alternatives →
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Smartibot▲72Build an A.I. robot out of anything: from potatoes to clay!
2018 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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A robot with tiny hands. Contribute to schubart/donald development by creating an account on GitHub.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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