10/24 traffick boss [to intern]: “i’m thinking a prototype where a robot plays bluegrass banjo sheet music on a ukelele.” intern: “which component is the prototype?” traffick boss has walked off intern gets to work building a robot intern visits bored hacker intern: “how do i make a robot?” bored hacker gives intern a book on robotics. bored old hacker: “you’ll need motors and an arduino or a raspberry pi, and a power source, and a motor control board, and a body. you can find a robot body on thingiverse probably. maybe websearch robot platforms?” bored old hacker: “nowadays they buy an openai key and all the robots are walking chatgpt clones” intern (holding robotics book): “that’s a lot of stuff! where should i start?” bored old hacker: “why does that matter? uhhhh why not find an example robot online and build that for practice?” 10/24