Firmware
Designing an Emotion State System for the Mochi Robot
Build a Mochi Robot emotion state machine for idle, listening, talking, happy, sad, thinking, and error states with replaceable animations.
7 min read
Notes
Mochi robot development notes
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Hardware
Complete Hardware Architecture for an ESP32-S3 Mochi Robot
A practical breakdown of ESP32-S3 Mochi Robot hardware: display, touch, I2S microphone, amplifier, speaker, battery, charging, and GPIO.
5 min read
Embedded UI
LVGL and Mochi Robot: Building Emotional Interfaces for Embedded Devices - Part 1: The Power of LVGL in UI/UX Programming
How LVGL helps build emotional interfaces for Mochi Robot, including expressions, menus, battery status, and UI on small embedded displays.
4 min read
Hardware
LVGL and Mochi Robot: Building Emotional Interfaces for Embedded Devices - Part 2: Mochi & LVGL
Part 2 of the Mochi LVGL series, covering faces, expressions, battery status, connectivity, screens, components, and UI states.
6 min read
Product Design
Mochi Devlog 01: Early Development
The first Mochi devlog: early hardware questions, first firmware decisions, and what already went wrong.
3 min read
Product Design
What Is Mochi?
A short introduction to Mochi, a small robot developed as an exercise in hardware, firmware, and product experience.
3 min read