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Pod head: a capsule on a stem

A long, low capsule on a short stem: the screen fills the middle, the camera looks out of the left end and the speaker is in the right. The Pod head is 90 x 31.6 x 70 mm and 51.7 g of PETG in 5 printed pieces, with a 2 inch touch screen, a camera, a speaker and an ESP32-S3 camera board inside. On the Mini v2's body it makes a bot that costs $363.77 CAD built and tested by 3D3D, $0.88 more than the Gem head.

Pod head on the Mini v2's body, a render

90 x 31.6 x 70 mmwidth x depth x height
51.7 gPETG, 5 pieces
+$0.88built price against the Gem head
20 of 24add-ons that fit

What it is

Every head holds the same bought parts, so a swap changes the printed grams and the plates, not the parts list: the Waveshare 2" capacitive touch LCD (18-pin FPC option) ($29.99), the Waveshare ESP32-S3-CAM-OV5640 board (camera and 2 W speaker in the box) ($37.99), two M3 heat-set inserts and the snap hooks. Its seat is the same on every body, so it fits all 5.

Its face, voice and moves run in the test room today. The program that runs them on the real ESP32-S3 chip is not built yet.

What it costs on each body

The Pod head on every body, built by 3D3D (from)
Body	Built by 3D3D (from)	Against the Gem head
Rolling, big wheels	$363.77	+$0.88
Rolling, small wheels	$296.61	+$0.88
Crawler	$301.05	+$0.89
Desk, turns and nods	$315.93	+$0.79
Tower	$325.22	+$0.80

The difference is the printed grams and the plates: printing is $5.00 setup plus $0.11 a gram plus bed time for each plate. This head uses the Gem's three colours (teal, bone and glow), so it adds no plate.

Add-ons that fit this head

The other heads

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All prices are in Canadian dollars before tax and shipping. Bought parts are priced from amazon.ca listings (seen 2026-11-04), plus 15% when 3D3D buys them. Printing, the build and test fee and finishing are 3D3D's own rates, listed on the prices page.