Maa v2

Apr 20, 2021

Maa is an opensource robot that will entertain puppies and teach them to communicate with people. The development started in 2020 with the food dispensing module, but took more than a year because I was using dry foods and all of my previous designs were prone to clogging.

With the use of the syringe filled with cream cheese, everything is much more simple! I also started to experiment with the button. I think I can use a hollow soft transparent hose, sealed at one edge or in a loop that measures the pressure inside. I ordered some pressure sensors and will have to wait for a couple of weeks for them to arrive.

A hypothetical future dog will bite the hose in different rhythmical patterns assigned to whole words (not letters) and get a cheese treat whenever one is correct. In the future, Maa can be portable with a speaker that translates and pronounces what the dog "types" by biting the hose.

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