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Building An Autonomous Battlebot (Part 1)
Humans & Robots Piloting a robot with a computer can have many advantages over a human; humans are slow to react, imprecise with their movement, and are prone to making mistakes under pressure. Computers, on the other hand, can react quickly, precisely, and make no mistakes (any mistake is the...
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Building My First Combat Robot (And Watching It Die)
When I first was a kid, I thought building a Battlebot sounded like the coolest thing ever. But, being a kid, it never went past me drawing some ideas for bots. However, once I got to college, I learned that WPI had one of the best combat robotics teams in...
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My Homelab Infrastructure
My obsession with server hardware began like many others my age: hosting Minecraft servers. As a middle schooler, I begged my parents to let me buy an old Dell server to put in our basement. I wasn’t able to convince them at the time, so instead, I made my own...