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Hey everyone,

We're looking for early users for Danon Robotica (https://danonrobotica.com/), a platform we're building around a simple idea:

What if you could describe a robot you want to build and get a complete starting project instead of figuring out every component from scratch?

You give it something like:

>Build me a beginner-friendly autonomous rover that detects obstacles and drives around them.

And it turns that into a project with the robot design, components, wiring, BOM, assembly instructions and starter code.

Here's one of the projects we generated: RoverBot Buddy, an Arduino-based obstacle-avoiding rover.

I've attached screenshots of the generated design and component layout.

Try giving it a robot you understand well.

Then tell us:

What did it get wrong?

- Did it choose sensible components?

- Would the wiring actually work?

- Is something missing from the BOM?

- Are the assembly instructions useful?

- Is the design internally consistent?

- What would stop you from actually building it?

Negative feedback is genuinely useful to us at this stage.

And if there's a particular type of robot you'd like us to test, drop the idea below.

I'm happy to generate some of the more interesting suggestions and post the results.

I've been experimenting with automatically generating complete Arduino project designs from a simple description, and I wanted to see how useful the result would actually be to someone trying to build the project.

For this test, the prompt was essentially:

Design a small Arduino-based rover that can move autonomously and detect and avoid obstacles.

The result included:

- The proposed robot design

- Arduino and component selection

- Motors, sensors and motor drivers

- A complete bill of materials

- Wiring instructions / diagram

- Assembly steps

- Starter Arduino code

I've attached the main outputs.

I haven't physically built this rover yet, so I'm particularly interested in having people who actually work with Arduino look at it critically.

If you were going to build this yourself, what would you change?

Are there any components you wouldn't use?

Anything wrong or unnecessarily complicated in the wiring?

Anything missing from the BOM?

Would the proposed design actually make sense as a beginner project?

The larger thing I'm trying to understand is whether automatically generated project plans like this can actually help people get from "I want to build a robot" to something concrete enough that they can start building.

Happy to share more of the generated design/code in the comments if anyone wants to dig into it!

https://preview.redd.it/bd96s2awdeih1.png?width=1267&format=png&auto=webp&s=2a2a32430de14a41243f5b719268d3c5d032be89