How to build a shitty robot
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A work in progress post about building a shitty robot.
How to build a shitty robot 2026-05-30 "What is my purpose?" Table of contents Disassembly using violence Reverse engineering the PCB and mechanics Big plans Rewiring the electronics Cardboard engineering The boring software Speech to text Text to speech Getting the speech pipeline right LLM and agent How it started, how it's going Last Friday I went to the toy store with my boy, and while he was rummaging through the Spider-Man section, my eyes caught sight of a section with very low-cost toy robots. As I'm playing with agents, LLMs, speech-to-text, and text-to-speech, I thought: why not buy
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