Paul Loisil's TNY-360 Is an Open-Hardware Espressif ESP32-S3-Powered Robot Dog for Everyone

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Developer and computer science student Paul Loisil has launched a second-generation open-hardware do-it-yourself quadrupedal robot dog, with which he hopes to make robotics more accessible: the TNY-360 v2.

"After almost three years of working on this project alone, I think I finally solved one of the things that bothered me most about getting into robotics: you either get very simple robots, or you quickly end up with something complicated, expensive, and difficult to understand," Loisil claims of the inspiration behind his project. "So I made my own PCB ecosystem to get clean wiring and make assembly hard to get wrong, and also made a big calibration and self-diagnostic firmware behind to check everything and explain to the user how to fix any mistake that's been made!"

The TNY-360, now in its second-generation iteration, is an open-hardware modular robot built with education in mind. (📷: TNY Robotics)

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