Make: Volume 93

OKAY ROBOT Pupper AI Quadruped

BUILDING A PUPPER ROBOT

Pupper is made up of three main components:

the brain, the four legs, and the body. In this

overview, I’ll explain what goes into each of these

and how they integrate. If you’d like to build

Pupper yourself (we’d love it if you do!) you can

find detailed step-by-step instructions at pupper-

v3-documentation.readthedocs.io. Experience

with 3D printing, basic robotics, Raspberry Pi, and

Linux terminal is recommended.

1. Brain

The brain (Figures

B

and

C

) contains all the

smarts of the robot: a Raspberry Pi 5 with

a Hailo 8L AI accelerator, a custom PCB for

communicating with the motors, a IMX296 ...