10/24<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">traffick boss [to intern]: “i’m thinking a prototype where a robot plays bluegrass banjo sheet music on a ukelele.”</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">intern: “which component is the prototype?”</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">traffick boss has walked off</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">intern gets to work building a robot</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">intern visits bored hacker</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">intern: “how do i make a robot?”</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">bored hacker gives intern a book on robotics.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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?”</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">bored old hacker: “nowadays they buy an openai key and all the robots are walking chatgpt clones”</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">intern (holding robotics book): “that’s a lot of stuff! where should i start?”</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">bored old hacker: “why does that matter? uhhhh why not find an example robot online and build that for practice?”</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">10/24</div>