So, its been a while since the last post. I originally started this website in the hope that it would help me to stay consistent with my engineering hobby projects, with the focal point being the development of Rolf, my small humanoid robot. The previous post was march 10th 2025 and since then Rolf has… Read More »Sidetracked and Sidequests
I’m not normally a guy that cares that much about my development environment, build pipeline, version control and so forth. Usually I view that as extra uninteresting fluff, and prefer to spend time on the coding part of programming. Normally I have the luxury that someone else takes care of all that stuff for me,… Read More »Creating a dev environment
Connectivity The first hurdle is simply how to get connected to the robot. The TonyPi creates its own Wifi that I can connect to with either my computer or phone. With a phone connection you can use the WonderPi app for both iOs and Android and play around with remote controlling the robot, but no… Read More »Exploring the TonyPi Software
So, I want to build a cool robot, that can do cool stuff, his name will be Rolf. How to achieve that? Both from a technical stand point but also from a project management point of view. What skills do I need to learn? How much labor should I invest in this? How much money… Read More »Creating a roadmap for Rolf
The Rolf project starts its life as a stock unmodified HiWonder TonyPi. So maybe a small review of the TonyPi is in order. I have spent some time looking for a humanoid robot kit to use as foundation for Rolf. The idea was that starting with a kit makes it possible to skip straight to… Read More »HiWonder TonyPi review