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The Detailed Online Tutorials can be found here: pidog.rtfd.io. Online Tutorials Available in EN, ES, DE, FR, IT and JA.
Joshua S. Spell
Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2025
When I was considering buying this, I reached out to SubFounder and asked about its compatibility with The Pi 5. I was told it wasn’t compatible yet but that they were working on an update that should be out soon, and that it was already being tested. I took their word and ordered this.That was last September and I’m still waiting. It’s sad when a company with such goodwill feels the need to lie.
P Wonnacott
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 18, 2025
Great kit robot dog, with excellent instructions, both paper and on line. Great fun to make and very educational
Brian Bartell
Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2025
This robot is an excellent "starter" or "educational" kit for the new robotics enthusiast. For the price, the kit is impressive on many levels:1. A wide variety of sensors lets you experiment with many different modalities: camera/video, sound, ultrasonic distance, acceleration, direction of sound, and touch.2. solidly built with precision fitting parts, and clear instructions and videos to construct it3. tons of open source examples coded in python, illustrating simple behaviors as well as complex things like balance on uneven terrain, and integration with ChatGPT4. an interesting array of servos and outputs, including speaker, tail-wag, full roll/pitch/yaw head movement, mood-lights, and 8-servo walkingDuring construction, I made one mistake. I posted a question to the SunFounder forum, and got an exceptionally quick and helpful response, to solve my problem.I am a coder by profession, so I really appreciate all the examples they have provided. There are so many options for customizing behaviors. I will be playing with this (ie, coding cool behaviors) for many many hours.And the robot is pretty cute to look at too.
Mark D
Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2025
PiDog is awesome! SunFounder has tons of tutorials (video and text) on their web site (click on their Online Tutorials, and then on Robotic Kits, and finally on PiDog Robotic Kit). This kit is not for the faint-hearted to assemble, but everything is labeled very clearly (probably the most organized kit I've ever ordered and assembled honestly). It would be a great intro into robotics for anyone and you can learn to code in Python as well as learn some Linux administration. There are quite a few Python routines already included with PiDog, so it's easy to play with. Just remember, you'll need to already have a Raspberry Pi as this kit does not include it (I used it with a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 2019 Quad Core 64 Bit WiFi Bluetooth 4GB RAM) and it works well. Definitely worth the price IMO.
RJF
Reviewed in Canada on February 14, 2025
Pi Dog is another great kit from Sunfounder. One the best things about this kit is once you get it assembled, do the calibration, everything works exactly as it should. Walking forward, backward, sitting, standing, push ups etc. all the functions work. This is not a simple kit to assemble. There are 74 steps to the assembly, some involving very tiny screws. The supplied tools work very well. I found the most difficult was getting the nuts started on the screws when attaching the servos, otherwise it's a rewarding experience. Five stars out of five for sure. Note: Our cat loves this dog. It seems to be his pet. When I turn the dog on and press Bark the cat will come running from wherever he is in the house.
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2025
This is definitely for older teenage boys and girls to build and program. Everything works except my sound module.Currently working back and forth with the Sun Founder technician.
FrD
Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2025
Takes a few hours to build, then a couple of hours to load and calibrate. Overall fun and can't wait to load it with an AI model to localize better.
Dario
Reviewed in Italy on April 13, 2025
Connettore dissaldato della lightboardMi chiedono 17 euro per spedirmene uno nuovo
Luc
Reviewed in the Netherlands on September 10, 2024
I’m kind of an older guy (57) but recently I started looking into Raspberry Pi, programming an own Voice assistant with locally deployed AI models etc.I wanted to turn it up a notch and found SunFounder where the PiDog was my direct choice to learn about the combination of mechanics and electronics. I loved the building and programming although I ran into 1 little issue. At some point when running some of the examples where all servo’s were turning on, the power dropped to the Raspberry Pi and rebooted.This is where the difference comes in……SunFounder has an awesome community on their forum helping out each other with challenges they are facing. SunFounder themself are actually very engaged on this forum and after briefly communication they brought me into contact with their official support and without any problems I received a replacement robot hat which is working perfectly fine right now.Customer Support, good customer support, is a rarity these days but SunFounder just simply delivers.In the meanwhile I also have the Pironman5 and if all well, I will receiving today the Mars Rover on Arduino to take me to the next level ;)I can only recommend.
muzzled
Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2024
Completely agree with the other reviews, this is a clever design showcasing how a variety of sensors and the SunFounder's robot hat can be combined to achieve complex actions and behaviors, in this case mimicking the behavior of a dog! The examples you see on the video are real, the ear scratching, the howling, including the superdog pose when getting picked up.It is educational to be shown examples of how all these are achieved with a capable board, a bunch of sensors, and programming. Sensor readings, servos and motor controls are very easy to work with via Python. The instructions are very clear, and the website has plenty and very good examples showing every aspects of using the board to build what you want, including autoboot into listening mode so it can be always on.I have yet to try the ChatGPT integration, but I have worked with OpenAI APIs before so I am confident it will work. I can imagine prompting additional puppy actions triggers and verbal dialog / action capabilities into PiDog, making it a perfect STEM toy and kids companion.PiDog is sheer fun, but the hardware that comes with it has a lot of potential uses. It is definitely worth getting if you are like me who want to experiment building robots, but just want to focus on the level of events and actions, and don't want to spend time on the low-level hardware integration, interrupts, register readings side of things! I am excited to experiment building things I had in mind for a long time but was limited by not knowing how to work with sensors. Now I am no longer blocked!One more thing to highlight is their responsive and helpful customer service. My speaker failed on arrival, and after some troubleshooting back and forth with their patience customer service, including showing them videos of my testing, I was given a replacement board for free and everything now works.
Diana Chrishney
Reviewed in Japan on November 11, 2024
It was easy to assemble
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