MBMark Bofillinhouseholdrobotics.hashnode.dev·Aug 24, 2025 · 2 min readAS-5600 feedbackWhen you order your AS-5600 magnetic decoders on Amazon, there’s reasonable odds the supplier will fail to ship you magnets along with the decoders, as they did me. No biggie, right? Magnets are easy to come by. Not so fast! My AI overlords tell me a...00
MBMark Bofillinhouseholdrobotics.hashnode.dev·Aug 17, 2025 · 2 min readSimple beginningsXD-3420 motors are a fine starting point, but of course they spin too fast and produce too little torque to be directly useful. The speed must be reduced and the torque increased. There are at least a few common promising approaches, and the one I ha...00
MBMark Bofillinhouseholdrobotics.hashnode.dev·Aug 13, 2025 · 2 min readNow all I need is an arm! Wait, why can't this arm lift anything?!? That other arm costs WHAT?!?LLM AI is absolutely amazing. The ability of machines to see, to converse, and to understand is unprecedented and miraculous. One might be forgiven for wondering why we don’t already have robots walking among us, doing household chores. At least unti...00