Petoi Bittle Robotic Dog
The Petoi Bittle Robotic Dog is the world’s first palm-sized, servo-activated bionic robotic dog with 1 hour of playtime. Have your very own programmable robot pet navigate with life-like movements and perform tricks with the remote control or the mobile app.
Build and program your Bittle to perform new skills and tricks whilst harnessing all aspects of STEM learning. Begin with Scratch block-based coding and advance with Arduino IDE and C++/Python. Develop your moto, physics, engineering skills & problem-solving abilities.
An excellent and challenging hands-on learning opportunity to assemble your own robot with 3D puzzle parts. Suitable for adults and children over the age of 14.
Program Bittle to see, listen, sense the surrounding environment and navigate the world with the optional intelligent camera module or other Arduino/Raspberry Pi compatible sensors.
Petoi Bittle Robotic Dog Review
Bittle operates on OpenCat, an open-source quadruped robot platform published on Github that fuses multiple gadgets into one organic system, offering endless programming and customisation possibilities.
Driven by extensible, modularised, and programmable NyBoard, the bittle dog is an absolute intelligent and inspiring toy, especially if you have a little STEM/STEAM background. With built-in Bluetooth and USB modules, and a remote, you can flexibly interact with your dog, which opens unlimited potential where you can teach your dog your tricks. Even for a layman with completely no DIY experience, it is still a great and rather addictive toy. Though you’d better order a pre-assembled one in that case.
For the pre-assembled package I ordered, the dog comes with a spare “shoe” a motion motor, and a few accessories, including the USB/Bluetooth modules. I also ordered a camera module which is not part of a standard package. I think the camera module should be made to fit in the head and peer through the eyes, which makes it more real.
Functional-wise, the dog does not do much in its default configuration. But since it’s programmable, it is just what lots of us desire it to be, isn’t it? So we have a place to make our dog’s actions. By the way, programming this dog is never anything complicated — in my case, it is just a few commands typed on my phone.
Overall, the Petoi Bittle Robotic Dog is a great way to get young people interested in coding.
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