Half-Built-Robots

BEADZ was envisioned as a cryptocurrency backed by a jar of beads. One token is (approximately) one bead. The jar sits in a cardboard box with a webcam pointed at it, and the camera is built to sign a…

What happens when tokenmaxxing gets to the point where you aren't even willing to open a text editor to write your blog anymore? Well, I built a human-LLM loop for such a workflow. This post is part…

Part 1 got the posts out of WordPress. Part 2 got the build onto Cloudflare Pages. Both of those ended with a blog that lives in a git repo and a theme that lives in that same repo, tangled up with…

During freshman undergrad at MSOE, each engineering student was issued a laptop. My first one came in 2014. Junior year we were offered a new refreshed system, which we could keep upon graduation, and…

This printer is my husband's baby. He bought it after some research, when Micro Center opened up in Santa Clara. He wanted to upgrade from the Prusa Mini and reprint the robot arm, the PAROL6 from…

I started soldering as a kid. My dad and I went to SciPlus (American Science and Surplus) and bought an analog variable temp iron. It worked well for learning. One lesson a bit more painful than the…

The Raspberry Pi 3B+ is a decent little SBC that I have used for robot projects in the past. It was the brain of YAM for a while, running ROS on Ubuntu with MATE Desktop…

My husband (boyfriend at the time) bought the Prusa Mini for us in December 2022 as a Christmas gift (I was always talking up the Prusa to him). We used it once we got back from travels. My mentor…

I bought an iRobot Roomba i7+ in 2021 to clean the one bedroom flat I had just moved into. It has served well since. It has moved apartments with me twice and shows up in both my 2022 and 2025 home…

YAM is short for Your Automated Machine (I started with YAM and needed to find some way to justify it). It started as an old dehumidifier that I gutted to its shell and then rebuilt as a mobile robot…