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Robotics pack & feed: bsky.app/profile/rosmo.bsky.social/… Open hardware educational robot: rosmo-robot.github.io Open hardware Ag robot (WIP): sowbot.co.uk 10% Engineer

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Patrick Meier @patrickmeier.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026
Excited to join the launch of the Climate Robotics Working Group, organized by MassRobotics! Kicking off with a fruitful panel discussion on challenges and opportunities, featuring the speakers below. I launched the Climate Robotics Network in 2023, and it's energizing to see this space grow! 🙌
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Rosmo @rosmo.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026
Orion - ROS2 Quadruped Robotics Platform www.reddit.com/r/robotics/comments/… Orion - a ROS2-based quadruped robotics system I designed, built, and programmed from scratch over the course of 8 months. After countless nights of debugging […]
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✨[redacted]✨ @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times
reuters: 

Sunken Nazi warships resurface as water levels drop
Scuttled German WW2 warships have reemerged from the Danube in drought-hit Europe.
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Rue Mohr @ruenahcmohr.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
JUST UNDER THE WIRE! 52 robots in 52 weeks. I got this one working at 8:58 (9pm deadline), which meant no time for paint or cool details. I did a lot of thinking about this one, I really wanted to do an origami finger or hand, but didn't have time.
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Sowbot @rosmo.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
And a couple of LED so that's encouraging
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Sowbot @rosmo.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Its pcb day!
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Aetherpoint @aetherpoint.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
learning about ROS2/LiDAR
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Sequoia Alexander 🌲✨ 林灵 (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️✨🦄 @sequoia.farm · 12/06/2026
Sometimes in robotics you will come across people who think software is some special tier of engineering apart from mechanical and electrical engineering. Of course a robot is all three and no one is more important than another.
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Rue Mohr @ruenahcmohr.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
What is it? are you going to take a look back in my timeline to see? 50-some-odd robots in 52 weeks (2026 challenge) kick it like its 1986!
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WriterOfMinds (she) @writerofminds.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Updates on the quadruped robot: I am about ready for final assembly and a proper test of the new motors, though that will have to wait until <gestures vaguely>. #robot #robotics #3dPrinting
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ACE the Quadruped 2026
Adventures in robotics and AI on a shoestring budget. SFF Fiction and occasional video game appreciation.
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Chris Paxton @cpaxton.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Low cost Makiina arms, built in Finland, doing actuator ring stack assembly (I think). More robots building robots. 1x speed and autonomous From Fayez Salka on X
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Sowbot @rosmo.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Latest dev platform for #ros2 RTK debuging and testing. Not fancy, but it was time to throw something together and get in the field
40x50cm robot dev platform on grass
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Sowbot @rosmo.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
The pcb chassis/ mount plate seems good! Next wire up motors and try for actual movement
Robot nonsense 30cm 4x4 robot made out of aluminium enclosure
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Sowbot @rosmo.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Pico platform dev kit for the sowbot.co.uk project. Still some slightly annoying software bits to do before it works
Small 30cm x 30cm 4x4 robot outdoors
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Sowbot @rosmo.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Slightly more grown up looking robot nonsense
A 30cm square 4x4 robot based around aluminum enclosure
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Odd_Jayy @oddjayy.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
N3RD first day out did well. #maker #robot #fyp
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Sowbot @rosmo.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Rearranged the sowbot.co.uk 'brain' to get it to fit inside a waterproof enclosure #robotics #ros2 #modular
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HiPE Research Group @ TXST @hipelab.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Nathan Charles and Utsav Adhikari will present their work on “ROS2 GPS-based Autonomous Vehicle Navigation in the Agriculture and Livestock Space” at the 2026 TXST STEM Conference: From Lab to Landscape: genstem.cose.txst.edu/txst-stem-co... #ros2 #AUV #GPS #engineering #research #txst
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Robot Talk @robottalkpod.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Alan Winfield (@alan-winfield.bsky.social) is Professor of Robot Ethics at @uwebristolofficial.bsky.social. He co-founded the Bristol Robotics Lab, where his research is focussed on the science, engineering and ethics of cognitive robotics. Listen to our chat here: www.robottalk.org/2026/03/13/e...
A photo of Alan looking happy, wearing a beige t-shirt and glasses.
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Sowbot @rosmo.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
This might be interesting for open hardware enjoyers www.arduino.cc/product-vent... (assuming it actually is open hardware once released)
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Arduino VENTUNO Q - Where AI Takes Action
The powerhouse for AI and robotics applications
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Sowbot @rosmo.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Updated the 'brain' and 'pico' robot BOM on sowbot.co.uk might try and get the Pico actually running tomorow
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Our mission is to bridge the gap between sustainability and scale by providing researchers and farmers with reproducible, lightweight robotics that reduce labour and environmental impact without propr...
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Sowbot @rosmo.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Updated this list of open hardware #robot electronics a bit github.com/samuk/list_o...
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GitHub - samuk/list_of_robot_electronics: A curated list of awesome open source electronic resources for robotics
A curated list of awesome open source electronic resources for robotics - samuk/list_of_robot_electronics
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Sowbot @rosmo.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Messing about with robots continues, this one doesn't work yet, pending github.com/Agroecology-... #ros2 #agbot #sowbot #robotics
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Hacker News 100 @hn100.atproto.rocks · 24/02/2026
Show HN: Sowbot – Open-hardware agricultural robot (ROS2, RTK GPS) sowbot.co.uk news.ycombinator.com/item?id=471238…
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Our mission is to bridge the gap between sustainability and scale by providing researchers and farmers with reproducible, lightweight robotics that reduce labour and environmental impact without proprietary dependencies. The Sowbot Open AgBot ecosystem is designed to bridge the “prototype gap” in
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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 10/02/2026
State of the Browser is sold out in-person, but £20 will buy you a whole day of online talks by industry experts. 2026.stateofthebrowser.com
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SotB14 | State of the Browser
Welcome to the fourteenth edition of State of the Browser, a yearly one-day, single-track conference with widely-varying talks about the modern web, accessibility, web standards, and more, organised b...
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Sowbot @rosmo.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Current thinking about a 2026 ROS bringup github.com/Agroecology-... Then gradual migration to github.com/openrr/openrr + github.com/openrr/openrr as they (and hopefully I) mature. Project is sowbot.co.uk Worth it, or just start as you mean to go on? #ros2 #rust #robotics cc @sequoia.farm
A open hardware Avaota A1 SBC with some purty lights
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clever coyote @canis.latrans.pet · 30/01/2026
you design 2-layer PCBs because you're good at making efficient layouts. I design 2-layer PCBs because I'm a cheapass. We are not the same
a screenshot from a PCB design tool showing a rat's nest of poorly routed traces
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Sowbot @rosmo.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Been working on the robot brain.. Some docs for it here sowbot.co.uk plan is to build an #Opensource Agbot #Robots #ROS2 #OpenHardware
A 10cm square sbc with some lights and a gps antenna on the top
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Robot Talk @robottalkpod.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
✨ New bonus episode! ✨ I asked roboticists what is well known in their field of robotics, but outsiders find surprising. Their answers touch on technical challenges, societal impact, and even students' expectations. 🎧 Listen here: www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-... #Robots #Robotics
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Bonus Episode 6.04: Surprising truths | Claire Asher
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Rue Mohr @ruenahcmohr.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Tomorrow my plan is to - fork a version of the controller software for the 8 channel servo board. - put an 8 channel servo board on the robot. - work out the extents for the servos - modify the servo board with walk sequencing software. - finish the robot.
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MicroBlocks @microblocks.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Hi, @octostudioapp.bsky.social and @cocubefun.bsky.social. We love this photo with the MicroBlocks logo in the back.
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Rue Mohr @ruenahcmohr.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
playback from realtime trainer recording! I can also do waypoints that are linearally interpolated. (realtime is just a fast stream of the same interpolation)
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MicroBlocks @microblocks.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
New Stable Release! Try it out at microblocks.fun/run/microblo... or install from microblocks.fun/downloads/la...
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
This is also what made Obsidian click for me. I was *so* tired of learning to write in one tool and then having to move to another. Well, now it's just something living atop the markdown files that *I* own.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 26/12/2025
howcomplexsystems.fail
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Rue Mohr @ruenahcmohr.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
The sin/cos differential capacitive fluid inclinometer you never knew you needed? <-- 15mm --> (balancing robot challenges)
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Guillaume Loquin @guybrushtreepwood.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
First steps! #robotics
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Guillaume Loquin @guybrushtreepwood.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
This is Plume, my new homemade biped robot. #robot
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Rue Mohr @ruenahcmohr.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Given a robots oscillation is 10Hz, and its been given a fresh set of batteries. calculate the excess amount of coffee the robot has been given.
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Sowbot @rosmo.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
github.com/hpssjellis/m...
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GitHub - hpssjellis/maker100-curriculum: maker100-robotics-iot-machine-learning-curriculum
maker100-robotics-iot-machine-learning-curriculum. Contribute to hpssjellis/maker100-curriculum development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Till Beemelmanns @tillbeemelmanns.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Depth Anything V3 now runs in real-time with our karl.'s camera data predicting metric depth from monocular images. With TensorRT optimization, we’ve wrapped it into a ROS2 inference node that’s ready to drop into your stack. Github: github.com/ika-rwth-aac... #Robotics #ROS2 #TensorRT
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Sequoia Alexander 🌲✨ 林灵 (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️✨🦄 @sequoia.farm · 17/12/2025
Robots don’t work. If it worked they would call it a machine. You can tell it’s a robot because it’s not doing what it’s supposed to do.
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Sowbot @rosmo.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
100% open hardware Robot brain starting to come together. Octa core Avaota A1 SBC, @sparkfun.bsky.social RTK, talking to @mister.industries Esp32. Next do the breakout for @adafruit.com Canpal and it's ready for @sequoia.farm motor drivers. Electronics power & via custom step down & isolation board.
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10cm stack of robot pcb with gps antenna
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MR. INDUSTRIES @handle.invalid · 31/03/2025
Oh boy.. finally found our #Bluesky password. Here's what you've missed: - We sold through our first batch of boards! - Ordered 100 more with revisions based on user feedback - Published our first YouTube video - Got registered with #OSHWA - Revamped all of our documentation ..And a lot more!
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JohnsonFarms.us @johnsonfarms.us · 08/12/2025
Made a pen plotter for under $20 and some 3d printed parts. It serves up a whole web server, just connect, draw, and plot. No drivers or installs for the user, just open a browser. Full writeup here hackaday.io/project/2045... #cnc #3dprinting #esp32 #penplotter #stem
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JamHamster @jamhamster.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Power washed the tanks in preparation for the move. Which is a completely normal thing to do. 😂
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Nacho Mellado @uavster.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
A few fixes later, here’s the robot’s new PCB alternating power between batteries and the Jetson Orin Nano’s 19V adapter. In both configurations, different voltages are regulated for the MCU, the sensors and logic, and the motors, with a total max power of around 60W.
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Sequoia Alexander 🌲✨ 林灵 (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️✨🦄 @sequoia.farm · 23/11/2025
Looking over my motor controller to see what components are limiting my max DC motor voltage right now and I check the datasheet for the EG3113 gate driver and it's +600 volts. Like lmao okay not that one then
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Gedalia @gedalia.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
When I read “oh! the places you’ll go” I didn’t ever imagine that would include an underground robot boxing match, where a pair of people attempt to play rock em sock em robots with 4 foot tall unitree bipeds. Remember the first rule of robot fight club is that we turn off logging.
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Robot Talk @robottalkpod.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
📢 New Episode Alert! This week, I chatted to Dr. Chapa Sirithunge from the University of Cambridge about what robots can teach us about human anatomy, and vice versa. 🤖 Listen now: www.robottalk.org/2025/11/28/e... #Robots #Robotics #BioInspired
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