Half-Built-Robots

What happens when you token max 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 of my…

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…

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…

My avocado tree started life under a cheap clip-on grow light from Amazon. The tree is five years old now and much grown. Back in my 2022 home automation post I put the grow light first in line for…

I started my Master's in Computer Science at UW-Madison in the fall of 2018 and graduated in the spring of 2021. I spent most of it in the People and Robots Lab under Dr. Bilge Mutlu, studying how…

After the interaction paradigms studies had run (the paper was on simmer) and Authr was built (that paper was simmering too), one question was still hanging. Put a physical robot arm in front of an…

The UR5 is where I learned the Universal Robots stack. I had already played with MoveIt and ROS on the lab's Kinova Mico. Once I proved that I could handle a robot arm I was given access to the UR5…

The Kinova Mico is where I learned MoveIt and basic ROS. It was slow. It was janky. But I learned how to control an arm, which was pretty cool. The nice thing about the Kinova from an HCI perspective…

Okos Polip is the device-to-cloud service I built for my own hacked devices. You might be wondering why that odd name? Well okos is smart in Hungarian and polip is octopus. A smart octopus with a…