Day 1: Out of the Box and Already Confused
The documentation is in three languages, none of them helpful. Here's what actually happened when we unboxed and powered on for the first time.
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I bought a Borunte robot. I documented everything — the setup headaches, the cryptic error codes, the moments it actually worked, and the many moments it didn't.
This is not a review. It's a running log. If you're thinking about buying one, or you already have one and you're stuck, you're in the right place.
The documentation is in three languages, none of them helpful. Here's what actually happened when we unboxed and powered on for the first time.
A living document of every error code I've encountered, what triggered it, and whether the official fix actually worked. Spoiler: often it didn't.
After three weeks of fighting the controller software, I got a repeatable pick-and-place cycle running. Here's exactly how I did it.
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