Community
The forum
Persistent threaded discussion, mirrored from our live Discord. Search-friendly, builder-scoped — the answer to your question is probably already here.
Forum is being built
Below is the channel structure that will mirror our Discord. Until the forum ships, join the live Discord — every conversation there will replay into these channels once the bridge is in place.
Join DiscordChannels (planned)
general
open chat about building Dropbears
torso-build
specific to the free torso session
arms-and-hands
left/right hand subassemblies
legs
left/right leg subassemblies
head-egg
the egg — Stewart platform, Jetson, vision
sourcing
where you got parts, what they cost
firmware-bringup
VESC tuning, ROS, calibration
show-and-tell
finished builds, in-progress photos
Why a forum, not just Discord?
Discord works in real-time but the answer to "what torque for the M3 in step 4?" gets buried within a day. The forum mirrors the live conversation into persistent, searchable channels scoped to each session. The AI assistant indexes the forum the same way it indexes the docs, so future builders get the answer in-context.