For anyone else who was curious and did not want to download an Excel file to read the table, parts will set you back $1300. Plus, who knows how much printing time.
There is also minipupper2[1] (I have minipupper1, waiting for version2), v2 has servos feedback (I think this first of kind in cheapest robots space), furthermore all minipupper1 hardware is also open-sourced on github[2], it is expected to be same for v2 version.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/336477435/mini-pupper-2-open-source-ros2-robot-kit-for-dreamers" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/336477435/mini-pupper-2...</a><p>[2]<a href="https://github.com/mangdangroboticsclub">https://github.com/mangdangroboticsclub</a>
Video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KntOIgzUjY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KntOIgzUjY</a><p>(via <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36299315">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36299315</a>, but no comments there)
A Dingo is a shy (with humans), wild dog in Australia. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingo" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingo</a>. I saw once once, but it was about maybe 100-200 metres away.
Imagine living alone in Russia and having few Dingos to carry meat and fish from hunting and fishing trips, and wood, etc.<p>---<p>Without reading the actual code, the structure of the system looks very clear, pleasant to understand. It's not a mess.
Why four legs?<p>Once the expense of four has been invested is there a better number, say six or eight, to have?<p>I can imagine all sorts of advantages and disadvantages. They choose four, is that because four is best? Or because a dog has four?