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 This initiative aims to create a vibrant weekly robotics community at Brmlab, bringing together beginners and intermediate participants, both hardware and software enthusiasts, including non-members. This initiative aims to create a vibrant weekly robotics community at Brmlab, bringing together beginners and intermediate participants, both hardware and software enthusiasts, including non-members.
  
-Through hands-on workshops and collaborative robot projects — from quadrupeds to robotic arms and drones — the program will build skills, foster peer learning, and strengthen the makerspace community.+Through hands-on workshops and collaborative robot projects the program will build skills, foster peer learning, and strengthen the makerspace community.
  
 The project also aims to implement a PET bottle recycling pipeline to produce 3D printing filament, making robot fabrication more affordable and sustainable. The project also aims to implement a PET bottle recycling pipeline to produce 3D printing filament, making robot fabrication more affordable and sustainable.
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   * Open to Brmlab members and external participants   * Open to Brmlab members and external participants
  
-===== Roadmap & Checkboxes =====+===== Roadmap =====
  
 ==== 1) Project Setup & Infrastructure Readiness ==== ==== 1) Project Setup & Infrastructure Readiness ====
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   * ☐ Best practices: documentation, issue tracking, demo days   * ☐ Best practices: documentation, issue tracking, demo days
  
-==== 3) Walking Robot — Quadruped ====+==== 3) 3D Printed Electric Motors ==== 
 + 
 +  * ☐ Research 3D printed motor designs (axial flux, radial flux, BLDC) 
 +  * ☐ Build first prototype motor 
 +  * ☐ Test and characterize motor performance 
 +  * ☐ Develop coil winding techniques 
 +  * ☐ Integrate motors into robot projects 
 +  * ☐ Reference projects: 
 +    * Open Source Ecology 3D Printed Motors — [[https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/3D_Printed_Electric_Motor]] 
 +    * RepRap BLDC Motor — [[https://github.com/RepRapLtd/RobotComponents/tree/main/Printed-BLDC-motor]] 
 + 
 +==== 4) Walking Robots — Quadrupeds ====
  
   * ☐ Select a base quadruped platform   * ☐ Select a base quadruped platform
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   * ☐ Mechanical assembly   * ☐ Mechanical assembly
   * ☐ First walking steps and basic gait patterns   * ☐ First walking steps and basic gait patterns
-  * ☐ Reference project: Sesame Robot — [[https://github.com/dorianborian/sesame-robot]]+  * ☐ Reference projects: 
 +    * Sesame Robot — [[https://github.com/dorianborian/sesame-robot]] 
 +    * Open Duck Mini V2 — [[https://www.thinkerforge.com/explore/docs/open-duck-mini/open-duck-mini-v2]] 
 +    * ToddlerBot 2.0 — [[https://www.thinkerforge.com/explore/docs/stanford-university/toddlerbot-2.0_2xm]] 
 +    * LeKiwi — [[https://www.thinkerforge.com/explore/docs/sigrobotics-@-uiuc/lekiwi]] 
 +    * Stanford Doggo — [[https://github.com/Nate711/StanfordDoggoProject]] 
 +    * Mini Pupper — [[https://github.com/mangdangroboticsclub/QuadrupedRobot]] 
 +    * OpenCat (Nybble/Bittle) — [[https://github.com/PetoiCamp/OpenCat]] 
 +    * Open Quadruped — [[https://github.com/adham-elarabawy/open-quadruped]] 
 +    * OpenQuadruped — [[https://github.com/Quothd/OpenQuadruped]] 
 +    * Open Dynamic Robot Initiative — [[https://open-dynamic-robot-initiative.github.io]]
  
-==== 4Robot Vacuum & Cleaning Robot ====+==== 5Mobile Robots ====
  
   * ☐ Define mobile robot architecture   * ☐ Define mobile robot architecture
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   * ☐ Implement obstacle avoidance   * ☐ Implement obstacle avoidance
   * ☐ Explore SLAM techniques   * ☐ Explore SLAM techniques
-  * ☐ Reference: Awesome Vacuum — [[https://github.com/awesome-vacuum/awesome-vacuum]] +  * ☐ Reference projects: 
- +    * OpenBot — [[https://github.com/isl-org/OpenBot]] 
-==== 5) Drone Platforms ==== +    * Robotont 3 — omnidirectional wheeled ROS-based educational platform 
- +    * DiffBot — differential drive mobile robot with ROS 
-  * ☐ Basic drone frame design +    * Awesome Vacuum — [[https://github.com/awesome-vacuum/awesome-vacuum]]
-  * ☐ Flight controller setup +
-  * ☐ Safety guidelines and test flights+
  
 ==== 6) Robotic Arms & Manipulators ==== ==== 6) Robotic Arms & Manipulators ====
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   * ☐ Kinematics and actuator control   * ☐ Kinematics and actuator control
   * ☐ Calibration and repeatability testing   * ☐ Calibration and repeatability testing
 +  * ☐ Reference projects:
 +    * SO-ARM100/101 — [[https://github.com/TheRobotStudio/SO-ARM100]]
 +    * BCN3D Moveo — [[https://github.com/BCN3D/BCN3D-Moveo]]
 +    * Thor — [[https://github.com/AngelLM/Thor]]
 +    * PAROL6 — [[https://github.com/PCrnjak/PAROL6-Desktop-robot-arm]]
 +    * Poppy Ergo Jr — [[https://github.com/poppy-project/poppy-ergo-jr]]
 +    * Reachy Arm — [[https://www.thinkerforge.com/explore/docs/johnting0512's-workspace/arm]]
 +    * OpenArm V1.0 Follower — [[https://www.thinkerforge.com/explore/docs/enactic/openarm-v1.0-follower]]
  
-==== 7) Robotic Hands Grippers ====+==== 7) Robotic HandsGrippers & End Effectors ====
  
-  * ☐ Select gripper/hand type (tendon-driven / rigid+  * ☐ Study different gripper types and mechanisms 
-  * ☐ 3D printing and assembly +  * ☐ Design and print gripper/hand prototypes 
-  * ☐ Sensor integration+  * ☐ Implement sensor integration (force, touch, position
 +  * ☐ Develop interchangeable end effector system 
 +  * ☐ Test different grasping strategies 
 +  * ☐ Reference projects: 
 +    * **Dexterous Hands:** 
 +      * Aero Hand Open — [[https://www.thinkerforge.com/explore/docs/komak-robotics/aero-hand-open]] 
 +    * **Parallel Grippers:** 
 +      * 3D Printed Parallel Gripper — [[https://github.com/roboninecom/3D-Printed-Parallel-Gripper-for-Robotics-Arms]] 
 +      * PincOpen — [[https://pollen-robotics.github.io/PincOpen]] 
 +    * **Three-Fingered Grippers:** 
 +      * RAMEL Three-Fingered Gripper — [[https://github.com/RAMEL-ESPOL/Three-Fingered-Robotic-Gripper]] 
 +      * ALARIS Underactuated Gripper — [[https://www.alaris.kz/research/open-source-3d-printed-underactuated-robotic-gripper]] 
 +    * **Adaptive Grippers:** 
 +      * SSG-48 Adaptive Electric Gripper — [[https://github.com/PCrnjak/SSG-48-adaptive-electric-gripper]] 
 +      * MSG Compliant Stepper Gripper — [[https://github.com/PCrnjak/MSG-compliant-AI-stepper-gripper]] 
 +    * **End Effector Tools:** 
 +      * Vacuum cups and suction systems 
 +      * Magnetic grippers 
 +      * Soft grippers (TPU printed) 
 +      * Custom tool changers 
 +      * Interchangeable tips and attachments
  
-==== 8) Humanoids ====+==== 8) Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robots ==== 
 + 
 +  * ☐ Study modular robot architectures and connection mechanisms 
 +  * ☐ Design and print identical stackable modules 
 +  * ☐ Implement docking and communication protocols 
 +  * ☐ Develop reconfiguration planning algorithms 
 +  * ☐ Test different configurations (snake, walker, vehicle) 
 +  * ☐ Reference projects: 
 +    * Dtto Modular Robot — [[https://github.com/otrebla333/Dtto-Modular-Robot]] 
 +    * SMORES-EP — [[https://www.modlabupenn.org/category/smores]] 
 + 
 +==== 9) Humanoids ====
  
   * ☐ Review existing open-source humanoid platforms   * ☐ Review existing open-source humanoid platforms
   * ☐ Gait and balance simulation   * ☐ Gait and balance simulation
   * ☐ Physical prototyping   * ☐ Physical prototyping
 +  * ☐ Reference projects:
 +    * Poppy Humanoid — [[https://github.com/poppy-project/poppy-humanoid]]
 +    * ToddlerBot — [[https://toddlerbot.github.io]]
  
-==== 9) Search & Custom Projects ====+==== 10) Search & Custom Projects ====
  
   * ☐ Collect project ideas from participants   * ☐ Collect project ideas from participants
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     * 12 public demo days     * 12 public demo days
   * Reduced 3D printing cost through PET bottle filament recycling   * Reduced 3D printing cost through PET bottle filament recycling
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