If you read the epilogue, they weren't able to achieve the under $1000 price goal. Total cost ended up being around $1,450. Pretty good price reduction compared to CARA 1.0 though.

Hypothetically if I were to want a quadrupedal robot to experiment with it's not an impulse buy/build, but getting closer to that point... whereas $3000+ is a hard pass (e.g. Apple Vision Pro territory).

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regularfry an hour ago | parent [-]

It's $1450 if you discount the construction time, as ever. Which ordinarily wouldn't be worth commenting on, but in this case it means rewinding 12 motors which just sounds like an exercise in tedium and hand pain.

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15155 an hour ago | parent [-]

Only because they didn't know how to ask the vendor to do it for them.

I guarantee this vendor would be delighted to make them to spec at a 1ku volume, max. Rewinding isn't even a meaningful SKU distinction or line retool, it's a configuration parameter.

At 12 motors per product, it's easy to hit MOQ.

	▲	drzaiusx11 8 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		There are inventor programs that'll literally ship you to Shenzhen to build connections to manufacturing sites and even provide you with a liaison, etc. I only know this because I was once in a program that did exactly this.
	▲	dezgeg 16 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Reminder that this was a student project.