Live Robot Hack Session
Botmatrix Live Hack Session 9
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Folding clothes is a pain in trousers but what if we had a robot to do it for us!?! There is a product that does this very thing. The Foldimate is slated to be released later this year in the $1000 range, but what if you don't have the space or the cash to afford such a time saving device?
This week we'll be exploring the idea of building a budget friendly laundry folding robot. The recipe will be a folding board, some HDD servos, camera, and IoTiny. Will the recipe be a flop or are we onto something?
I would also like to add object and voice recognition to the project to make it easy to command the folding robot to do different folds based on pants, shirts, etc.
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And on that note Laundroid the company that had the commercial clothes folding robot just went under to the tune of 20M https://www.engadget.com/2019/04/23/laundroid-robot-seven-dreamers-bankruptcy/
Oh man, it seems more and more robotics hardware companies are failing that's the second one I heard of this week. The first being Anki, who had over $200M in funding and still collapsed.
Luckily there is still one more laundry folding robot that might still make it, the Foldimate: https://foldimate.com/
Otherwise, we'll be depending on my robot, which still needs some tweaking
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