Building the Duckling Droid: AI, Robotics, and Computer Vision in Action
summary
A personal Duckling Droid gets built from Lego, 3D prints and small servos, running object detection on Azure Custom Vision and local inference on a NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano (versus a $35 Raspberry Pi). The robot reliably spots an R2‑D2 toy and turns its head, toggles a torch with hand gestures, and animates eyes with an LED matrix; prototypes repeatedly fall apart until glued or 3D printed. Cost bite is real — 11 motors at $500 each makes walking versions impractical.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:38Early robotics projects
- 5:06First BD1 droid with Raspberry Pi
- 9:02From LEGO to 3D-printed droids
- 12:14Pedroid with Nvidia Jetson
- 15:52Travel challenges with droids
- 18:38Raspberry Pi vs Nvidia Jetson
- 24:06Azure computer vision for robotics
- 28:26Duckling Droid discovery
- 33:47Paper and LEGO Duckling prototype
- 36:473D printing and assembling Duckling
- 39:39Sensors and AI services
- 41:04Droid-building community
- 43:12Closing thoughts
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