I'm building robots

Publish Date: Oct 18 '24

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Hi, I'm starting a new "robots" series where I loop you in on some of my personal robotics projects.

My interest is in personal, "around the house" bots which take on tasks — with lawn maintenance at the top of my list at the moment. I anticipate some creative sprawl as I take this on.

Lawn mowing bots are available for purchase — with plenty of options, but in researching the products, I've developed a real builder's curiosity around what might be possible.

It will be winter here in New York, and this seems like just the right winter hobby.

Will I ever develop anything useful? Who knows. But I decided to make this first post because I do feel committed to trying.

Happy building ❤️

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BntstrOct 18, 2024
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Ben HalpernOct 18, 2024
*winter hobby

Ironically if lawn maintenance is my main goal, winters aren't great for testing. But my hope is that I do a lot of fiddling for live testing in the spring.
- DimanchecfaOct 19, 2024
  OK
- cubiclesocialOct 19, 2024
  Simple fix: Make it a snow shoveling robot. While mowing the lawn is a chore, shoveling snow is always a more urgent situation. It's cold, snowy, wet, you need a shower after sweating like crazy from the workout, and you're going to be 15 minutes late to the meeting because your car and driveway are both buried under 3 feet of snow. Mowing a lawn can wait until the evening or the next day. Shoveling snow always has to happen "now."
  
  Another option is to have kids. Let them do the chores! But then you also have to pay those slightly pesky permanent monthly fees for Children-as-a-Service (CaaS) and each subscription tends to complain loudly too. So...tradeoffs.
M NvOct 18, 2024
i love your idea prof_
Peter TruchlyOct 18, 2024
Subscribed. By all means, keep this going!
AshOct 18, 2024
super cool

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I'm building robots

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