Robot builder says Bob died after a battery mod fried its Raspberry Pi brain
chrismatthieu · x · 2026-07-24
A robot builder says his robot, Bob, died after he tried to consolidate two LiPo batteries into one larger pack and fried the Raspberry Pi brain.
He plans to rebuild it with an AVerMedia SenseEdge, an NVIDIA Robotics Jetson brain, and a RealSense D457 GMSL camera. The image shows the robot platform and sensor stack in a home lab setup.
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