Printing 3D parts for your Petoi robots
Its a lot of fun customizing your robot
Its a lot of fun to customize your robot. As an example, many folks painted their Vector robots. Many painted Vector robots sell on Ebay. The current owner of Vector, Digital Dream Labs, took this idea to the next level, and sells official painted Vector robots for a premium. Similarly, Petoi robots can be customized with 3D printed parts.
Printing the dinosaur head
I have been enjoying exploring a new 3D printer installed at my local library, and printing many 3D accessories for the Bittle robot. Recently, a Bittle user posted 3D files for a head and tail to turn the Bittle robot into a dinosaur. This is a very cool project to do if you want to learn 3D printing or enjoy printing 3D parts for your Bittle.
Printing the dinosaur head at the library 3D printer was a unique experience. I needed to modify the original file a bit by adding it some supports and increasing the thickness of each layer to make it print the 3D part within the library mandated time-slot of 3 hours. The final product, though not perfect, left me amazed. Here is a picture from the 3D printer printing the dinosaur head.
Here is my Bittle converted to a little dinosaur. It is cool and a lot of fun.
Other 3D parts
If you need more ideas, Petoi also provides a great open-source repository for 3D printable parts for Bittle. As an example, if you ever break your robot’s neck joint, there are a number of printable files here. Another interesting option is the Lego cover for Bittle, using which you can attach various Lego blocks or Lego structures and make your Bittle look really fancy. And in case you want to attach a Rasbperry Pi to your Bittle, there is a great support part printable from here. There are fancy horns for Bittle, and other accessories to make Bittle look really cool.
And similarly, there are a lot of 3D printable parts for the Petoi Nybble robot listed here.
Have you tried 3D printing? Do you have a recommendation for a specific 3D printer? The one in my Library is , although it worked really quick and great, I am interested to know if there are any otehr options. If you have experience with 3D printing, please provide feedback in the comments section.