Marty, programmable and customisable walking robot, Robotical Ltd, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Marty is a fully programmable, customisable, educational walking robot for kids, makers and educators.
The perfect robot for learning about robotics - a low cost walking robot that's more than a toy.

He's Wi-Fi enabled, Raspberry Pi compatible, and even 3D printable.

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Meet Marty the Robot, a fully programmable and customisable walking robot. For kids, for makers, and for educators

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This is the first in a series of weekend hacks we're going to do - little customisations or add-ons that you can do with a Marty! This week, we give Marty eyebrows that can move individually, and we build Lego on top of Marty!

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In the second of our "weekend hacks" series, we show another little add on you can do with Marty. Marty's electronics have spare ports for attaching all kinds of sensors (or extra motors), and as a simple demo we've attached a couple of bump switches to his feet.

Now he can tell when he bumps into something (like another Marty...)

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Marty the Robot is a fully programmable, wifi-enabled, customisable walking robot. Perfect for kids, makers, and educators.

He's got a unique way of walking and moving around - but he can walk, turn, kick a ball, and bust out funky dance moves. These are some of those funky moves.

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In this episode of weekend hacks, we give Marty new arms that have closing grippers on them, so he can grab stuff! Marty can now pass things to you.

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In this episode of our weekend hacks series, we add a whole bunch of LEDs to Marty! We added a neopixel 12 LED ring behind each eye, and a neopixel strip under the chin. Then dancing happened.

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In this "weekend hack" video, we added voice control to a Marty. We used a Raspberry Pi 3 and a USB microphone, and then installed a voice recognition library called PocketSphinx onto the Raspberry Pi.

It runs offline in real time, and is fairly accurate - although Marty ends up dancing a lot of his own volition

Setting up the voice control was a bit fiddly, as most of the guides we found for the Raspberry Pi were out of date, so we'll make a blog post with more detailed instructions and some sample code soon!

In the longer term, we'll also make it so that you can voice control your Marty without even needing the Raspberry Pi!

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We tried to make a crowdfunding vid with robots, kids and animals. The kids were really well behaved, the robots and the animals, not so much.

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