It's no secret that this blog once harboured aspirations to hit the dizzying heights of advanced robotics on a meagre budget. Rather foolishly - armed with a Raspberry Pi (or two) and an assortment of motors procured from eBay - we believed that we could start our very own Tyrell Corporation , and in essence, create a fleet of replicants experiencing a distinctly human mid-life crisis. We have seemingly succeeded in stumbling through over 30 little experiments , with a couple of random "projects" to boot. Yet the holy grail of creating a paranoid android that forces Harrison Ford to become uncharacteristically philosophical about what it means to not(?!) be a robot, or even the goal to fabricate ourselves Dolly the electric sheep, seem even more far-fetched now than the plot of a typical Uwe Boll film. But it hasn't all been in vain. Because where we have landed is where most other avid tinkerers of microprocessors and electronics eventually end up......
Daddy, can we make a robot?