Reverse engineering the Dash learning robot

• Jonathan Diamond brushed up on Ghidra to add to the open source interface for a Dash robot found at a thrift shop. • Much to their credit, the MakeWonder company released an official Python library: https://github.com/playi/WonderPy It breaks out all the controls and sensors in a reasonable way. • Here’s the documentation of the features it covers. • This would more than cover all the features I wanted for my turtle bot. • The catch is that it only works in Python 2 on x86 OSX. • Previous reverse engineering efforts weren’t suitable to seeing how to control the bot.

Article Summaries:

• Jonathan Diamond brushed up on Ghidra to add to the open source interface for a Dash robot found at a thrift shop. Much to their credit, the MakeWonder company released an official Python library: https://github.com/playi/WonderPy It breaks out all the controls and sensors in a reasonable way. Here’s the documentation of the features it covers. This would more than cover all the features I wanted for my turtle bot. The catch is that it only works in Python 2 on x86 OSX. Previous reverse engineering efforts weren’t suitable to seeing how to control the bot. I decided to go back to the original

Sources:

• https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/16/reverse-engineering-the-dash-learning-robot/