🤖 MyZubster: Connecting Robotics, IoT, Blockchain and 3D Reconstruction
What if an open-source project could bring together robots, urban gardens, IoT sensors, privacy-focused payments, cryptography and 3D reconstruction?
That's the idea behind MyZubster.
MyZubster is an open-source ecosystem I'm building around practical hardware and software projects, with the goal of making robotics and automation accessible to makers, developers and contributors.
The project is organized around GitHub repositories, documentation, issues, milestones and a community-driven bounty system.
🌱 What is MyZubster?
The ecosystem currently focuses on several areas:
- 🤖 Open-source robotics
- 🚁 Autonomous and experimental drones
- 🌱 Urban gardening and IoT
- 🔐 Privacy-oriented blockchain integrations
- 🧬 Post-quantum cryptography research
- 📐 3D scanning and reconstruction
- 🧱 Beginner-friendly construction manuals
The goal isn't to build isolated prototypes.
The goal is to create an ecosystem where these technologies can interact.
🤖 EVA IONI
One of the main projects is EVA IONI, an experimental robot designed around urban gardening and automation.
The concept includes:
- environmental sensors
- automated irrigation
- remote monitoring
- cloud connectivity
- modular hardware
- open documentation
The long-term idea is to make the hardware reproducible rather than keeping the design inside a proprietary platform.
🚁 Urban Lab Drone
Another part of the ecosystem is the Urban Lab Drone.
The project explores how drones can be combined with:
- autonomous navigation
- environmental mapping
- 3D reconstruction
- telemetry
- decentralized payment concepts
The objective is to experiment with real-world applications rather than building another isolated drone prototype.
🌱 IoT Urban Gardens
MyZubster also explores connected urban gardens.
Sensors can monitor parameters such as:
- soil moisture
- temperature
- light
- environmental conditions
The collected data can then be used to support automated irrigation and monitoring.
This creates a bridge between physical infrastructure and software automation.
🔐 Monero and MYZ
Privacy is another important part of the project.
MyZubster experiments with Monero (XMR) for privacy-oriented payments and uses MYZ as a project-specific reward mechanism for contributors.
The idea is simple:
Contributions should be measurable, transparent and potentially rewarded.
Possible contributions include:
- code
- documentation
- testing
- CAD designs
- hardware experiments
- technical research
The bounty system is managed through GitHub issues.
🧬 Quantum and Post-Quantum Cryptography
Another research area is cryptography.
The project explores concepts including:
- QKD
- BB84
- post-quantum cryptography
- secure wallet architectures
This part of MyZubster is particularly experimental.
The goal is not to claim that quantum technology magically makes a system secure, but to investigate how emerging cryptographic techniques could be integrated into future decentralized systems.
📐 3D Reconstruction
3D reconstruction is another major area of development.
The project investigates automated pipelines for transforming scans and captured data into usable 3D models.
These models could eventually be used for:
- robot mapping
- drone mapping
- garden surveying
- CAD workflows
- digital twins
- autonomous navigation
We are also experimenting with modern 3D scanning hardware, including the Revopoint Trackit SR.
The goal is to connect the scanning process with the rest of the ecosystem instead of treating 3D models as isolated files.
🧱 Documentation Inspired by LEGO Manuals
Hardware projects often fail at one important thing:
documentation.
A technically brilliant robot is difficult to reproduce if nobody can understand how to build it.
That's why MyZubster is developing step-by-step manuals inspired by LEGO-style instructions.
The documentation aims to include:
- parts lists
- assembly instructions
- wiring
- software setup
- firmware
- CAD files
- testing procedures
The objective is to make complex projects approachable for beginners while still providing useful information for experienced makers.
🧩 GitHub-Driven Development
The project is organized around GitHub.
Issues are grouped into milestones covering areas such as:
- EVA IONI
- Urban Lab Drone
- Urban Garden IoT
- Quantum Wallet
- 3D Reconstruction
- Documentation and Community
This structure makes it possible to track development publicly.
Repository:
MyZubster Manuals
https://github.com/MyZubster-Ecosystem/myzubster-manuals
Organization:
https://github.com/MyZubster-Ecosystem
💰 An Open Contribution Model
One experiment we're running is a GitHub-based bounty system.
Instead of simply saying:
"We need someone to work on this."
an issue can describe:
- the technical problem
- the expected result
- acceptance criteria
- the potential MYZ reward
This creates a more structured relationship between contributors and projects.
The long-term goal is to make contributions easier to discover and evaluate.
🌍 Why Open Source?
Robotics becomes much more interesting when hardware, software and documentation are open.
A contributor could improve:
hardware → firmware → software → documentation → testing → 3D models
and the improvements can feed back into the ecosystem.
That's the experiment behind MyZubster.
🚀 What's Next?
Some of the areas I'm currently interested in developing further include:
- better robotics documentation
- reproducible hardware builds
- automated 3D reconstruction pipelines
- IoT garden automation
- drone mapping
- cryptographic experiments
- contributor tooling
- improved GitHub bounty workflows
There is still a lot to build.
That's exactly why the project is open.
🛠️ Want to Contribute?
You don't need to be a robotics expert.
Contributions can include:
- programming
- electronics
- CAD
- documentation
- testing
- research
- translations
- technical writing
Start with the GitHub issues:
https://github.com/MyZubster-Ecosystem/myzubster-manuals/issues
Or explore the organization:
https://github.com/MyZubster-Ecosystem
Website:
Final Thoughts
MyZubster is an experiment in combining open-source hardware, robotics, IoT, privacy technologies and community-driven development.
The interesting part isn't any single component.
It's seeing what happens when they are connected.
If you're interested in robotics, open hardware, IoT, 3D reconstruction, cryptography or maker projects, you're welcome to explore the repositories and contribute.
🚀 Build it. Document it. Share it. Improve it.
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