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Reverse Engineering a Dash Robot with Ghidra

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/02/14/reverse-engineering-a-dash-robot-with-ghidra/

<div><img alt="A marketing image of a Dash educational robot is shown. It is made of a triangle pyramid of four plastic spheres. Two of the base spheres house wheels, and the top sphere houses a speaker, lights, and sensors." class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" height="450" src="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/dash_reverse_engineering.png?w=800" style="margin: 0 auto; margin-bottom: 15px;" width="800" /></div>
<p>One of the joys of browsing secondhand shops is the possibility of finding old, perhaps restorable or hackable, electronics at low prices. Admittedly, they usually seem to be old flat-screen TVs, cheap speakers, and Blu-ray players, but sometimes you find something like the Dash, an educational toy robot. When [Jonathan] came across one of these, he decided to use it as a turtle robot. However, he found the available Python libraries insufficient, and improving on them <a href="https://www.robopenguins.com/reverse-dash/" target="_blank">required some reverse-engineering</a>.</p>
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<p>While [Jonathan] was rather impressed with the robot as it was – it had a good set of features, and thought had clearly been put into the design – he wanted a more open way to control it. There was already a quite useful, official Python program to control the robot over a BLE connection, but it only worked with Python 2 on OS X ([Jonathan] theorizes that it might have been written as a development tool, open-sourced, and

Reverse Engineering a Dash Robot with Ghidra https://hackaday.com/2026/02/14/reverse-engineering-a-dash-robot-with-ghidra/
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Every 2 years #ROS releases a new LTS version requiring a new #Ubuntu version, (with new #Python version), that requires rebuilding my robot Dave and revisiting my installer for the robot hardware Python API, robot files, and sensors.

For years I wondered why I could not just apt install a #GoPiGo3 deb file, or just build a #pyprojecttoml ?

So I built each. Now understand why I must use an install script.

#DexterIndustries devs were genius!

The #EducationalRobot market is a mess.

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