The article itself was a bit too holier-than-thou for me but I want more robotics content here on HN so let's hijack this thread and share robotics passion!!
My own shitty first foray into robotics is an RPi that I can talk to [2].
If you didn't see "the coolest robot I've ever built" you gotta watch that... so inspiring [3]
Latent Space has a robotics demo day coming up, pretty curious to see what comes out of that [4]
Some stream-of-conscious thoughts about why I'm drawn to robotics:
* The maker / hacker / homebrew communities that are basically just using robots to express art. Maker Faire, Burning Man, etc.
* The satisfaction of writing code and seeing something physical happen. Last week I was trying to figure out how to get a shitty third party Amazon robot hat [5] to actually do something useful so I was iterating through the GPIOs and I somehow made it actually smoke. I'm weirdly proud of messing up so badly that my hardware actually smoked!
* The joy of demystifying hardware and learning all the layers of abstraction just within hardware
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The article itself was a bit too holier-than-thou for me but I want more robotics content here on HN so let's hijack this thread and share robotics passion!!
My own shitty first foray into robotics is an RPi that I can talk to [2].
If you didn't see "the coolest robot I've ever built" you gotta watch that... so inspiring [3]
Latent Space has a robotics demo day coming up, pretty curious to see what comes out of that [4]
Some stream-of-conscious thoughts about why I'm drawn to robotics:
* The maker / hacker / homebrew communities that are basically just using robots to express art. Maker Faire, Burning Man, etc.
* The satisfaction of writing code and seeing something physical happen. Last week I was trying to figure out how to get a shitty third party Amazon robot hat [5] to actually do something useful so I was iterating through the GPIOs and I somehow made it actually smoke. I'm weirdly proud of messing up so badly that my hardware actually smoked!
* The joy of demystifying hardware and learning all the layers of abstraction just within hardware
[2] https://www.biodigitaljazz.net/blog/STTTGTS.html
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38162881
[4] https://lu.ma/latent-space-final-frontiers
[5] A Xmas present from my sweet wife, really touching that she's encouraging me to actually pursue my interest in robotics