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I have always wanted to get into robotics. Maybe my next evolution in stuff is robotics. I'm starting to get tired of big corporate software engineering.

These silly things are neat. I'm also really interested in the snake/worm robots that dig to find people and inflate to move rubble.

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I had a similar thought years ago. Recently I built a CNC machine and it was a great blend of hands on, practical building work and software work. The software domain being a new challenge was fun too. It felt great to excercise existing skills in a new domain, to reach a new totally novel goal for me.

Now I barely use it, which does suggest that building it is what I really wanted to do all along and that kind of validates that robotics is probably a hobby I'd enjoy.

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