Goddard The Robot Dog Brought To Life

There’s not much more nostalgic for many than good ole’ Jimmy Neutron. This was true for [Kiara], who saw the gorgeous pupper Goddard and wanted him for herself. Of course, there was no solution other than to make an animatronic version of the robot dog.

Starting with some files ripped from a Jimmy Neutron GameCube game, Goddard was designed digitally before being printed in life size. Of course, for a true reproduction of the robot dog, the parts had to be prepped and painted in the iconic chrome and purple. A real plasma ball was used for the brain, and linear actuators were used for the legs. The head was able to be moved around similarly to professional animatronics using fishing line and servos. Put together the entire finished pup, looks incredible.

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Fixing The Failure Of The Reevo

There are a lot of traditional features of a bike that rarely change. The spokes, the chain, and the inability for it to take off like a rocket, to mention a few. None of these are features of the Reevo, a bike that tried, and mostly failed, to innovate the traditional electric bike. [Berm Peak], an individual with more time on two wheels than the entire Reevo team ever had, tried his hand at fixing the Reevo’s many problems.

[Berm Peak] has had a go at the Reevo before, but this time he had to go a lot deeper. Before any real work could be done on the Reevo, the controller needed to be jailbroken since the only way to use most features required an app that wasn’t available. Surprisingly, the controller boards were found to be well labeled, and with some trial and error, the protocols could be reverse-engineered.

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