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A local Gradio MCP server controlling a robot platform |
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- Radical
- AI
- Messing
- In
- Earthworks
A local Gradio MCP AI powered wheeled robot, capable of listening, speaking and executing commands, in the vision of the B-AROL-O team
TRIVIA: The B-AROL-O team likes to use names of Italian wines as acronyms for robots. RAMIE is a local red wine from my village
TRIVIA: "Vino" is the Italian word for Wine. Intel OpenVINO AI runtime is the perfect runtime to run a robot named after an italian wine by italian developers
The scope of this repository is to document the Hugging Face MCP 1° birthday hackaton
The scope of this repository is to document all instruction to replicate in full the robot project
Work is divided in two parts:
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Work that is qualifying for the hackaton itself, that was started 2025-11-14, this includes learning GRADIO, learning MPC, preparing the MCP tools, interfacing ollama with AI models needed
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Work that is not qualifying for the hackaton and was recycled from previous projects and is in this repository in order to make a complete set of instructions to replicate this project. This include the electronics, the mechanical part of the robot, learning the compute board, and learning that was done for ollama testing of the microphone
This felt like a good chance to gather all the disparate documentation and work done over the years in one tidy set of insttructions that can be followed to make one complete platform end to end with the GRADIO/MCP/OLLAMA software being the keystone that glue it all together.
Designs marked with '(not qualifying for hackaton) ' are older recycled design that are here for documentation, instruction and completeness purposes and are not qualifying for the scope of the hackaton. They are either taken as is, or lightly/heavily adapted to serve for the scope of the Hackaton.
I design in OpenSCAD as I like making geometries as code and I like doing everything parametric.
I decided that the robots should be powered by 18650 batteries. Target configuration is 2S2P. For RAMIE I went with an inverted design that is soldered 4S1P to get 14.8V nominal voltage to be compatible with the input regulator for the Latte Panda Lite Board.
- MEC: 18650 Battery Holder (not qualifying for hackaton)
- MEC: Wheeled Platform (not qualifying for hackaton)
The robot platform is the one I am designing for Latte Panda Lite Board powered AI robots, it was a good fit for this hackaton
Interfaces with a UART bidirectional link with the SBC, answer to a serial protocol, controls two servos and a LCD screen. Choosen because I had a bounch assembled in a drawer and working firmware to start from.
- ELN: Board Motor Screen (not qualifying for hackaton)
- FW: Board Motor Screen (not qualifying for hackaton)
- FW: Test Bench Serial Communication (not qualifying for hackaton)
- FW: Test Bench Motion Orchestrator
- SW: Python demos to test communication between Host computer and board
- SW: Python demos to test communication between SBC and board
I lost count of the SBCs I tested for my ultimate goal of making a general robot that expresses a degree of general intelligence with local compute only. The N100 16GB could be it, it has the memory, bandwidth, compute and power envelope to run useful LLMs on the go.
I always have trouble accessing SBC headless, I finally got a 49€ KVM to mitigate the issue and free myself from using discrete keyboard and mouse
Install Ubuntu 24.04 Server LTS on the SBC and configure network and storage
Ubuntu 24.04 Server Install Instructions
I always have trouble accessing SBC headless, I finally got a 49€ KVM to mitigate the issue and free myself from using discrete keyboard and mouse
Configure the GRUB to use ttyS0 as UART serial interface to let the host connect via putty via USB to UART FTDI adapter
TTYS0 SERIAL GRUB CONFIGURATION
Use VS code on host machine with remote SSH plugin to evelop and run code directly on the SBC via WiFi radio
Final test with the robot under battery power with SBC, AT324, WiFI and motors running with SSH teleoperation form keyboard
2025-11-23-T1537.Teleoperation.SSH.Demo.mp4
The robot hosts and run locally GRADIO
There are two chats
One is the chat to ask about RAMIE capability using LLamaindex to rag the specifications
The second has a tool that attaches with a MCP tool to the motors and genereate serial command for the robot to execute
- Huggingface Hackaton
- Huggingface Example Track 2 Creative
- Huggingface space
- Huggingface Organization
- Github repository
- Github project board
Track 2: MCP in Action
mcp-in-action-track-creative
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NOTE: This repository is based upon https://github.com/arol-polito/python-project-template. Source code license
The source code contained in this repository and the executable distributions are licensed under the terms of the MIT license as detailed in the LICENSE file. Documentation license
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