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24 alternatives to Meet Sid, our Raspberry-Pi-powered office robot
Sid is a Raspberry Pi-based office robot that launched in 2013. It's designed for workplace environments where users want a physical robotic presence. The robot runs on affordable Raspberry Pi hardware, making it an… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Meet Sid, our Raspberry-Pi-powered office robot launched in 2013; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hi. I heard HN likes e-paper gadgets so I wanted to share a little side project I’ve been working on with @sqfmi. We’re building Beepberry - a portable e-paper computer for hackers, designed for chatting on Beeper. My day job is running Beeper [0], but I will always have a soft spot for building hardware. I wanted to create a ‘weekend’ device that would let me stay in touch with friends and family, without the distractions of a full smartphone. I imagined a tiny, hackable e-paper screen with a physical keyboard, powered by a Raspberry Pi, that I could use to chat around my home…and pretty…
2023 · beepberry.sqfmi.com · its alternatives →
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Using the Raspberry Pi to water plants automatically
2017 · mtlynch.io · its alternatives →
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Raspberry Pi 3▲4383nd generation with faster processor, wireless and Bluetooth
2016 · raspberrypi.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · jasperproject.github.io · its alternatives →
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Pi-card is an AI powered voice assistant running locally on a Raspberry Pi. It is capable of doing anything a standard LLM (like ChatGPT) can do in a conversational setting. In addition, if there is a camera equipped, you can also ask Pi-card to take a photo, describe what it sees, and then ask questions about that. It uses distributed models so latency is something I'm working on, but I am curious on where this could go, if anywhere. Very much a WIP. Feedback welcome :-)
2024 · github.com · 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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Smaller, better, and cheaper: $20
2014 · raspberrypi.org · its alternatives →
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Hi all, excited to share our latest work, OK-Robot, which is an open and modular framework to perform navigation and manipulation with a robot assistant in practically any homes without having to teach the robot anything new! You can simply unbox the target robot, install OK-Robot, give it a "scan" (think a 60 second iPhone video), and start asking the robot to move arbitrary things from A to B. We already tested it out in 10 home environments in New York city, and one environment each in Pittsburgh and Fremont. We based everything off of the current best machine learning models, and so…
2024 · ok-robot.github.io · its alternatives →
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Building a Bus Clock for my House using a Raspberry PI and Python. I won't miss the bus ever again!
2022 · purplehoisin.com · its alternatives →
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Check your chances of having a Robot Boss anytime soon
2017 · willrobotbemyboss.com · its alternatives →
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I am not sure if this is fits the HN community, but I am posting it here if people are interested. This is the current iteration of the car: http://i.imgur.com/ko8YBh.jpg Details: I wrote a simple android app that streams the accelerometer data from the phone to the pi over a simple socket. The pi then uses this data to drive the DC motor and the servo motor. Tilting the phone to control the car feels very natural. In this[0] pic you can see the wifi dongle I've used. I am using Adafruit Occidental v0.2[1] as my OS because it has support for my wifi dongle. It also makes some hardware…
2012 · i.imgur.com · its alternatives →
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2017 · kelu124.gitbooks.io · its alternatives →
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Tingbot▲119Transform your Raspberry Pi into a platform for creativity
2015 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · runmyrobot.com · its alternatives →
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Telepresence robot giving you a physical presence at work
2015 · doublerobotics.com · its alternatives →
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2018 · medium.com · its alternatives →
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Wow, half a year has passed since my last blog. I have to admit, during this period I was a bit disconnected from the physical AI world. I transitioned to a different team at work after their two data scientists were reassigned to other teams, and I had to ramp up quickly to take over…
Dec 2025 · airoboticist.blog · its alternatives →
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1 record player + 1 Raspberry Pi = team bonding at Mozilla.
2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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2013 · raspberry.io · its alternatives →
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The GoPiGo3 is a Raspberry Pi Robot Car kit that is easy to build and program with Scratch, Python, Blockly, and other programming languages..
2013 · dexterindustries.com · its alternatives →
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