I Want to Build a Robot
I’ve wanted to build a robot since I was ten years old watching battlebots after school. Not a fancy one — just something with wheels that can avoid running into walls. Maybe it blinks when you get close to it. That’s the bar.
The thing is, I never started because it always felt like you needed an engineering degree and a workshop full of expensive tools. But then I spent $12 on an Arduino and realized you can make a motor spin with three lines of code. The gap between “I have no idea how robots work” and “I made a thing that moves” is smaller than I thought.