I found an intriguing $1,500 robot-building kit from Evolution Robotics with an open platform architecture. It looks like a powerful hardware and software environment for creating autonomous machines, and I really wish I could get my hands on one.
On an IndiGo flight from Singapore to Chennai, I saw a passenger wrap her phone in the safety-kit plastic and wedge it behind the tray table for hands-free video watching—a practiced travel hack.
I explored low-cost robotics like SO-ARM100, optimized Docker images with multi-stage builds, and adopted Marp for Markdown slides. I also investigated Model Context Protocol (MCP) workflows and techniques for serving structured content to LLM agents.
I found the news of Panna Felsen defeating three robotic arms in an arm-wrestling match fascinating, as it proves electroactive polymers are still significantly weaker than biological human muscles.
I found an argument that visual AI is more powerful when it generates code: render, inspect, and revise editable SVGs, interfaces, animations, or 3D scenes instead of static pixels.
I navigated corporate resistance to open source by demoing prototypes directly to business leads and avoiding the 'open source' label with IT. I learned to deliver the full stack personally while adapting to rigid infrastructure constraints and security policies.