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Make more robots

[Paul Hetherington @paulcjh]

I've been hard at work the past few months in SF working on some buy buttons. Today I'm launching my plug-and-play product line that lets you build a robot real fast.

Right now to make a robot you have to stitch together a bunch of different PCBs with jumper cables and wait weeks for blackbox actuators to arrive from China. You spend lots of time debugging why your CAN bus isn’t working, why every actuator performs differently, and meanwhile your wires keep coming loose.

So, I'm making the following:
- RB1: A robot main board powered by an Nvidia Jetson. This handles power distribution, compute, and a bunch more.
- WM1: 2-channel wireless radio for sending video/data making the RB1 remotely controllable over USB-C.
- M1: A pancake BLDC motor machined in-house.
- ACB3: An FOC control board with matching connectors to the RB1. (big brother to ACB v2.0)
- A1/A1m: A planetary/cycloidal actuator powered by the ACB3. (this is on the site in a couple weeks)

Everything is on sale for this week, and shipping begins this spring! As a big thank you to the supporters of ACB v2.0 (and thanks for patience in shipping delays) you can buy the ACB3 for 50% off.

If you like this kind of thing and want to join please DM me, I'm working solo right now and need good folks to join!

[Raphael Schaad @raphaelschaad]

W26 founder getting ready for his Monday 😂