Please note: To bring your Petoi robot to life with these exciting accessories, you'll need access to a 3D printer. Don't have one at home? No worries! You can easily download the STL files provided in this post and use online 3D printing services to print them. What a lot of users do is check out local maker spaces or community workshops in their area—these spaces often have 3D printers available for use. These options make it simple for anyone to start creating custom accessories for their DIY robot dog. Also Note that all of the accessories mentioned below are compatible with Bittle and Bittle X.
Bittle Stand
One of the most popular and useful accessories for Petoi Bittle is this 3D-printed stand. Securely place your Bittle robot with this stand or use them as you are building and programming the robot. Educators love to use this stand as they demonstrate and teach students about Petoi Bittle movements during school robot projects. The stand provides a much better view and understanding for educators as they build the full robotics kit from scratch. The stand also features inbuilt calibration references and allows the robot to move its legs freely when programming without running around to mess things up. Here is a video showcasing the stand in action:
Lego Cover
Starting things off, take your DIY Robot to the next level with this robot cover. This Lego cover is an alternative backside for Petoi Bittle that enables users to expand on it with various Lego bricks. With this Lego cover, elevate your pet robot experience as you can use Bittle to attach custom lego boxes to carry or transport things from one place to another. Particularly helpful to design projects and challenges, educators and young students are huge fans of this cover as it sparks curiosity and tests their imagination!
Highbar Hook
Highbar Hooks take Bittle off the ground! Another fantastic movement to explore with your DIY Robot is pole spins and rotations. Once you 3D-Print and attach these high bar hooks to Petoi Bittle, you can hang the Bittle from a horizontal pole and maneuver it to spin and rotate around the pole. These hooks are a fantastic way to learn distinct robot movements and understand the 3-Dimensional logic behind robot movement.
Wide Feet
Expand the Bittle to even more challenging terrain with wide feet. While Petoi Bittle is known to traverse all terrain, when you want to push it to the absolute limit, you can also opt for 3-D printed wide feet. Imparting even more stability and giving the robot a higher stance, the feet are a great addition to the sturdiness of Petoi Bittle.
Animal Accessories
Petoi Bittle dog is a small smart quadruped robot with a lot of character and distinct features. Don't get us wrong, we love the original form of our AI robot pets, however, there are many tiny animal accessories that you can 3D-Print to give your quadruped a new avatar to keep the fun going. While the main body of the robot will remain the same, these small accessories are easy to put on and will transform your pets into various creatures for you to interact, play, program and learn with!Here are a few examples of the most popular accessories especially used while assembling and building robots for kids:
a) Beetle Horn
As you can see in the video above, the 3D printed Beetle horn is one of the most popular accessories to pair with a Bittle Robot Dog. Once you print the horn, remove the dog face and attach the Beetle Horn to your robot. The horn can be used like an arm to push objects and to play friendly battles between Bittles. The Beetle horn is a fantastic way to relearn and explore Petoi Bittle movement, spatial awareness, and robot mechanics!
b) Fox head
With the Fox head you can change the appearance of your robot pet. Just detach the Bittle dog head and change it with the fox head to unlock fully new experience and perosnality with your quadruped pet!
c) Bone
Every dog loves to clamp a bone on its mouth. So does Bittle robot dog. Print a bone and give Bittle a treat!
Bonus: Community Submissions
At Petoi, our amazing community is always surprising us with their innovation and design skills. As a bonus, we're going to take a look at 2 such community led projects of 3-D printed accessories.
Bittle Electronics Cover: The first of the accessories featured on our list is by Carl Clement. When Carl submitted this design, he was new to Petoi Robotics, but his idea was to create a prototype that could fit snugly on top of Petoi Bittle, he modelled it upon the STL files that can be found on the Petoi GitHub pages mentioned above. To access the STL file of this particular cover, you can click here. Here is a picture of the accessory made by Carl.
If you're looking for a programmable robot cat, then Petoi Nybble is a great choice! However, if you're looking to have some fun with your Bittle DIY robot kit, then this submission by Don Patrick is going to amuse you! Don thought of the clever idea of creating a 3D-printed cat head that fits on the Bittle robot dog. Don was experimenting with an alternative head for quite some time and developed this design which can be mounted on the existing head servo and equipped with an ultrasonic distance sensor. To download the STL files for this unique cat head, click here.
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