Adeept RaspClaws Hexapod Spider Robot Kit Compatible with Raspberry Pi 5/4B/3B/3B+(Board Not Included), STEAM Crawling Robot, OpenCV Target Tracking, Video Transmission, RPi Robot with PDF Manual

TLDR: This is a great kit, very affordable, follow the online PDF as it did not come with instructions in the box. The programming part is straight forward to get it running. simply clone the repo and run setup script. Have fun! I got this RaspClaws kit for my kids as a Christmas present, and couldn’t be happier. It’s is a great start for anyone trying to get started playing with robotics. The price is fairly reasonable given the parts that it comes with, Picam, servos x15 +1 one extra, Accelerometer, LEDs, ect. Once assembled, it is fairly compact and even looks pretty cool. There were no instructions in the box, but instructions could be found on the link provided on the product page of amazon. The assembly process is straight forward simply follow the instructions and you’ll be setup in no time. Overall, it took me less than a day to put it all together. Everything is OpenSource, so you simply have to download the code from their Git repo, and run the setup.py. The setup script will take care of installing everything needed for the RaspClaws to work. Once everything was setup and installed, I was able to run the RaspClaws.py without any issues and connected successfully to the ‘spider’, and It crawls … it’s creepy Overall, this is a great learning/fun kit! I look forward to see how they play with it longterm. P.S: you may want a second sets of batteries, to limit your play downtime :-D

I had to watch the video along with reading the assembly document due to 2D vs 3D. Set up your Ras Pi first, get your servos aligned. If you align while assembling make sure the camera is connected or it won't boot the software. I have built more than a dozen kits in the last year. This one has the most accurate instructions (almost dead on) and the software worked perfectly though i did have a little trouble getting the right CV file. Trial and error got me there. I would recommend this to youngsters who want to start using and programming a Raspberry Pi as it is very accurate and easy to follow. I used a RPI 4, it worked first time and every time. GREAT PRODUCT!

Assembled this thing over the span of a couple days. The online manual is "ok", the illustrations are sometimes a bit hard to get a bead on the correct angles but as long as you pay attention it's not too bad. The software download/installation was probably more time consuming than hard but seeing as you're working with installing software on basically 2 machines, it's tolerable. I did have 2 issues: As noted on another review, one of the capacitors fell off the driver hat as soon as I took it out of the bag. Cold solder joint. I re-soldered and everything worked fine once the robot was finished EXCEPT I can't for the life of me get an image out of the camera. According to the manual, as soon as the client program connects to the Pi you should see a video window open up. Never happened. I could otherwise control the robot, the camera servos, everything except get a video to display. I've sent an email to Adeept support so we'll see. I've got enough to play with as it is but the color recognition would be a nice addition. ;-)

I was very excited to build this with my daughter. However, the instructions if you can call them that are really poorly written. Diagrams do not help. I had to peruse the instructions several times. The the lady on the video talks way too fast, skips around, and is not clear. I had to slow the video to 75% (thank you YouTube) and play it 4 times before I could fully understand what to do. I realize for some the steps may seem too basic, but for a toy labeled STEAM, they should be more descriptive and easy to follow. The worst part of the product is that the controller does not do a good job of controlling. Every time a leg moves, the Rasberry pi has to reboot. Without the legs hooked up the Rasberry pi works perfectly fine.

Well for starters, my son and I have been building the spider over the last couple of weeks. Why so long, different issues mostly related to chores around the house. However we finally sat down and started to put it together. First thing we noticed is that the screws are not labeled correctly and they aren’t packaged in a way that you would easily identify them. They are packed in even groups but that’s not how you will put them together. The protective plastic on the frame is adequate but annoying to take off. Might want to put an advisory to wear plastic gloves on to keep from having fingerprints all over every piece. But aside from these inconveniences the adeept spider is fun to build and work with.

Nice toy. Great project hope it teaches me how to control my other toys

Many of the pieces broke during assembly because the nuts would not fit in the slots without modifications. Luckily CA glue fixed the pieces. It is also very difficult to swap out micro SD cards after being assembled. Batteries don't last very long so I would suggest batteries with much higher mAH.

Fun but not easy to make it work with all the installations, the manuel is good but i can't install sudo pip3 install opencv-python ...

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Excellent job done by the developers at Adeept, this is an exceptionally good product for people like myself who are interested in tinkering with AI and robotics. The fact that the sample code provided is written in python makes the learning curve a lot more easier for beginners. Assembly is quite easy, I followed the youtube instructional video but at times had to cross-check some of the steps with the pdf instructions manual just to be sure, having both sources to work with made it easy. Quick tip: ensure that the software on the raspberry pi is set up correctly and server.py is running before starting the build as you will need to center the servos while attaching them to the robot (this is done by connecting them to the pi shield). On the pi, you can download the code from Adeept's git page and just run the setup.py python script, the script does all the heavy lifting for ensuring that the correct libraries are installed, really made it hassle free. Cost wise the parts alone that come in this product make it a good buy. This is the 2nd product from Adeept that I have bought in the past 2 years, not been let down, I will definitely continue to keep an eye out on future products these folks develop.

The documentation is lacking, but the quality is good This package is well worth the money.