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OLAF: an embodied AI agent with a Raspberry Pi 5 brain
After 50-plus failed custom PCBs, a maker switched to a robot drive kit and had an open-source Pi 5 robot moving within a week, coding with Claude.
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- Reddit poster KamalSingh10 Source ↗
- Repository account kamalkantsingh10 Source ↗
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The full story
OLAF is an open-source embodied AI agent with a Raspberry Pi 5 and AI kit as its brain. The maker learned soldering and PCB design from scratch for it and spent four months melting components, bridging pins and ordering boards that failed; more than 50 custom PCBs are now coasters.
They then bought a robot drive kit and a few adapters, and a week later OLAF was moving. The demo is rough, with wires everywhere and nothing in a case, but it moves, reacts and shows expressions. The maker says using Claude as a coding partner "changed everything" for code, documentation and design decisions. Voice input and the AI layer come next.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: Pi 5 as the brain of an embodied AI agent — 4 months of PCB disasters and one good pivot. Demo insidReddit poster: KamalSingh10Posted
The maker's post on r/raspberry_pi.
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- The code: github.comRepository account: kamalkantsingh10
The project on GitHub.