{"id":20156,"date":"2020-05-13T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T08:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=20156"},"modified":"2020-05-13T09:00:05","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T08:00:05","slug":"building-a-quadruped-robot-using-a-raspberry-pi-4-and-approx-900","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=20156","title":{"rendered":"Building a quadruped robot using a Raspberry Pi 4 (and approx $900!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pupper.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20157\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pupper.jpeg?resize=560%2C420&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pupper.jpeg?w=750&amp;ssl=1 750w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pupper.jpeg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pupper.jpeg?resize=560%2C420&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pupper.jpeg?resize=260%2C195&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pupper.jpeg?resize=160%2C120&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A group of students at <a href=\"https:\/\/stanfordstudentrobotics.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Stanford University Student Robotics group<\/a> have developed a lightweight, open source quadruped robot design. They&#8217;ve called it the\u00a0<em>Pupper<\/em> and it runs from a Raspberry Pi 4. The cost for the Pupper is between $600 and $900, depending on the quantities involved. The best part of it is that they have extensively documented the build process over on <a href=\"https:\/\/stanfordstudentrobotics.org\/pupper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">their website<\/a>. From there, you can find <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1Ofrtlmh0dQoEvRji5PUVH9bgwHnR-8KkTXR1eMLzXh0\/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a bill of materials, build instructions, CAD models and PCB designs<\/a> and they have released all <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/stanfordroboticsclub\/StanfordQuadruped\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the code necessary on GitHub<\/a>. A quick video of the Pupper is below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stanford Pupper\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NIjodHA78UE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If walking robots is your thing, you might also be interested in one of this year&#8217;s Pi Wars entrants: <a href=\"https:\/\/spotpuppy.home.blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spot Puppy, designed and built by Josh and Jeremy Pattman<\/a> which you can see below. I know which I think is cuter :p<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Spot-Puppy_sm_sm.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20158\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Spot-Puppy_sm_sm.jpg?resize=560%2C373&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Spot-Puppy_sm_sm.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Spot-Puppy_sm_sm.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Spot-Puppy_sm_sm.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Spot-Puppy_sm_sm.jpg?resize=560%2C373&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Spot-Puppy_sm_sm.jpg?resize=260%2C173&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Spot-Puppy_sm_sm.jpg?resize=160%2C107&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of students at the Stanford University Student Robotics group have developed a lightweight, open source quadruped robot design. They&#8217;ve called it the\u00a0Pupper and it runs from a Raspberry Pi 4. The cost for the Pupper is between $600&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=20156\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Building a quadruped robot using a Raspberry Pi 4 (and approx $900!)","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[138,45],"tags":[896,771,895,897],"class_list":["post-20156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pi-wars","category-robotics","tag-pupper","tag-robotics","tag-spot-puppy","tag-stanford"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Building a quadruped robot using a Raspberry Pi 4 (and approx $900!) - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=20156\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Building a quadruped robot using a Raspberry Pi 4 (and approx $900!) - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A group of students at the Stanford University Student Robotics group have developed a lightweight, open source quadruped robot design. 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