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Review on 🐢 Freenove Robot Dog Kit: Raspberry Pi 4 B 3 B+ B A+ with Walking, Self Balancing, Ball Tracing, Face Recognition, Ultrasonic Ranging, Camera Servo – NOT Contained by Katty Berlingo

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Amazing kit - very complete and interesting to work with, just need RasPi batteries and 18650

I was about to get a Raspberry Pi 4 when I saw this kit. I've been obsessed with the idea of robot dogs for a while, and when I saw this I knew I had to get it. I felt like a kid again when I received the kit. Just to be clear, you'll need to purchase the Raspberry Pi 4 separately, but that's easily available here at Revain. You will also need to purchase 2 x 18650 lithium batteries elsewhere (refer to the battery manual from the manufacturer of this kit). The rest of the kit is complete. It comes with all the parts you need: servos, screws, acrylic parts and even a screwdriver. Extra screws were included which I appreciate because I kept dropping them and losing them on the floor lol. The software aspect of this kit is really cool too. As a software engineer whose primary working language is Python, and as someone with a background in computer vision, I particularly appreciated that the code controlling the robot was open source. You can open issues on GitHub Freenove if you need help optimizing the code or run into problems. They were very quick to respond when I realized that you need to make some changes to make the code work with a specific version of opencv.

Pros
  • Best in niche
Cons
  • For old