BRAIN THE SIZE OF A PLANET. DRIVEN.
Marvin
And they ask it to park itself. Life. Don't talk to it about life.
“I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed.”
Prototype in progress
It is a tiny desktop rover built into a mint tin.
We made Austin Marvin just for fun.
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The Tin.
The whole robot lives in a mint tin. The lid is the hood. The build photos below are the real prototype, Pi and all.
The Brain.
A Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W with a voice bonnet and a 1.3 inch display bonnet stacked on top. That is the face, the ears and the mouth.
- Pi Zero 2 W
- Motor bonnet
- Display bonnet
- Voice bonnet
- Battery
- Camera
- Geared motors
The Wheels.
Two geared motors, two wheels, a tin on top. The drawings are from the planning deck.
The Badge.
Wings, a crown of stars, a face in the middle. The mark from the deck.
The Specs.
- Tin, lid outer
- 2.36 x 3.75 in 59.9 x 95 mm
- Tin, bottom
- 2.3 x 3.7 in 58.75 x 93.9 mm
- Tin, inner
- 2.24 x 3.6 in 56.9 x 91.5 mm
- Height, bottom section
- 0.83 in 21.28 mm
- Height, top section
- 0.36 in 9.26 mm
- Corner radius
- 0.55 in 14 mm
- Pi Zero 2 W
- 2.6 x 1.2 x 0.6 in
- Voice bonnet
- 2.6 x 1.3 x 0.4 in
- LCD bonnet
- 2.6 x 1.2 x 0.6 in
- Price
- TBD
- Ships
- TBD
- Software
- Python camera.py, motor.py in the Marvin repo
Tin measurements from the planning deck and a Raspberry Pi forum thread on mint-tin builds. Nothing here is for sale yet.
The Idea.
A bipolar robot. Austin Powers one minute, Marvin the next.
Austin Marvin switches between two personalities: Austin Powers and Marvin the robot. A small robot with a screen for a face that sits on your desk and drives around when it feels like it. The original 2022 repo had only the Marvin half, in one line: “Marvin, a depressed desktop Martian rover.”
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