Day 8 of Building AI Robots 🤖 Worked on the blog site I've been chipping away on in the background. Planning to keep the design super simple so I can focus in on logging my progression. Been great for reviewing progress and figuring out next steps. #LearnRobotics #vinceqbuilds #buildinpublic

Backlogged Day 7 of Building AI Robots 🤖 Took a look at the roadmap for my progress and aligned the budget (gonna have to get a raspberry pi and deciding between either a PiDog or PiCrawler) ChatGPT was saying for aligning to the industry the PiCrawler would be better (more modding potential out of the box and more mechanical design considerations)

Backlogged: Day 6 of building AI robots 🤖 Connected the Robot Car to my phone via the mobile app and used to control the car via FPV (first person view) though LAN (local area network). With this I'm through Level 3 and on Level 4. This is where progress begins to slow because I need to get pricier components (raspberry pi, AI robot kits, etc). But honestly Level 4 has me hype because this where I'll start putting together pre-determined robots (Level 7 is where I start making custom - already started designing and listing the components). #LearnRobotics #vinceqbuilds #buildinpublic

Backlogged: Day 5 of building AI robots 🤖 Focused in on understanding the upcoming levels better and the costs associated with them Getting perspective on budget since I'm almost done with the key elements for the robot car kit (just need to connect to my phone via app) #LearnRobotics #vinceqbuilds #buildinpublic

Day 1.1 of building AI robots 🤖 Got the LED on the Uno R3 blinking using code Modified the blink example in the Arduino IDE for a shorter delay Moving on to external LEDs and the breadboard next #LearnRobotics #vinceqbuilds

Day 1 of building AI robots 🤖 Grabbed an Elegoo UNO R3 kit (and somehow 2 dragon fruit 🐉🍓) from Amazon Downloaded the Arduino IDE Starting off with Claude + the starter guide Let’s see where this goes 🚀 #robots #AI #hardware #LearnRobotics #vinceqbuilds

Used ChatGPT + Amazon + Google AI mode to create a robotics learning path. About to dive into this, considering turning it into an app quickly: Level 0 Newcomer Avg Pay: $0 | Avg Age: 12–18 Project: Blink LED Kit: a.co/d/javdadL Level 1 Tinkerer Avg Pay: $100/year | Avg Age: 13–19 Project: Traffic Lights, Temp Sensor, Buzzing Alarm Kit: Same as Level 0 Level 2 Hobbyist Avg Pay: $1,000/year | Avg Age: 15–20 Project: Build a robot car that avoids obstacles & follows a line Kit: a.co/d/ayKY6Oe Level 3 Maker Avg Pay: $5,000/year | Avg Age: 16–21 Project: Remote-controlled robot car via phone Kit: Same as Level 2 Level 4 Experimenter Avg Pay: $10,000/year | Avg Age: 18–23 Project: Pi camera streams + Arduino controls motors (simple vision-guided robot) Kit: a.co/d/9yTfrBs Level 5 Builder Avg Pay: $50,000/year | Avg Age: 20–24 Project: Build/program robot arm to stack objects Kit: a.co/d/1ogRNgB Level 6 Engineer-in-Training Avg Pay: $100,000/year | Avg Age: 22–26 Project: Self-balancing robot & path-planning car (advanced sensors like lidar) Kit: Try to build using previous + new parts Level 7 Prototyper Avg Pay: $120,000/year | Avg Age: 24–30 (graduate students or early career engineers) Project: Autonomous mapping robot that creates a 2D/3D map of your apartment (full robotic platform like Jetson Nano) Kit: a.co/d/8xEE89p Level 8 Specialist Avg Pay: $175,000/year | Avg Age: 27–35 (senior engineers and PhD researchers) Project: Design and build a unique robotic manipulator or drone (Fusion 360/Blender + 3D printer + robotics hardware) Level 9 Professional Avg Pay: $250,000/year | Avg Age: 30–40 (staff engineers and team leads) Project: Autonomous robot that can navigate complex spaces with AI vision (NVIDIA Jetson, ROS2, reinforcement learning libraries) Level 10 Tesla/Boston Dynamics Ready Avg Pay: $500,000/year | Avg Age: 32–45 (principal engineer/director) Project: Build/lead a team that prototypes robotic systems for factories, cars, humanoid robots #buildinpublic #AI #futureofwork

Learned jewelry design could be a good path to learning robotics especially with my AI + programming experience (3D printing then going into circuits/sensors) Gonna be looking into this more 🤔

Starting a challenge to learn to make jewelry with AI + 3D printing Out of everything I've been doing can't get this idea (now obsession) out of my head

articulation and storytelling are gonna become superpowers as we see more and more AI content

Working on mindmaps 2.0 More aligned. More data driven. More actionable.

Shared an AI agent I developed last night with the target audience and was able to confirm initial thoughts on agentic SaaS vs traditional SaaS and how simple an AI agent MVP can really be Not ready to share the agent just yet but excited to work on the project.