Persevere. Robots.

I had planned to let this blog die as the person who convinced me to create it on blogspot essentially abandoned me. But I'm gonna suck it up and stick with the blog. I might even get around to finishing my template soon.

Anyway, what this post is really about is ROBOTS!! WHOOO!!!!

I have a very particular dream. Something I've had for a long time and one that my imagination has developed over the years. I want to be a very intelligent doctor. I want to be the doctor that people trust and don't end up writing nasty blog enteries about after their appointments (DAMN YOU DR. ROBERTS!!!). And I want to be this amazing doctor in a very small town. A clean town though. I don't want like a little hick town. Just a town in Canada surrounded by trees but is a relatively short drive away from a big city. And I don't want to live in the town. I just want to be employed there. I want to live outside of a small town with only a tiny dirt path to my house but really clean and surrounded by canopy trees that make a sort of tunnel. And I want my house to be surrounded by trees with plants with maybe a little orchardy thing with apple trees and cherries and raspberry bushes. Oh! And like deers and stuff that live near it.

But when you actually go into my house, I want a whole automated world just thrown at you. I love playing with electricity and wires and circuit boards and soldering irons and all that fun stuff. I don't have much knowledge in it yet but I want my house to have lots of little moving pieces all over. And I really want to have a floating robot greet you at the door. You'd knock on the door or ring the door bell and it would float over on it's fans and open the door and say stuff like.

"Welcome to Dr. Wards house. Is this a medical emergency or a friendly visit?" And he'd say it in a sinthetic british accent. And if they said "Friendly visit" then my little robot greeter would ask to take their coat and when they hang it on it's little hook it would fly away and toss it somewhere or if they said "medical emergency" it would say (in it's classy/soothing accent) "Please follow me to the exam room." And he would zip off to my own personal exam room that I have in my house and then wisp off to wake me up.

Oh! And if it was company I'd have it programed so that I could say "Could you please make coffee for our guests" or something and it would wisp off and bring back mugs and a pot of fresh coffee.


Okay, I know the whole thing with the robot (and I didn't even get into the other dozen robots I want to build or other little gizmo's in the house) is a little far fetched but it's completely do-able. I'm building my first robot now. It's a very very simple robot that doesn't require any programing since it's just a beginner one to sort of teach me about all the parts. It will have only two wheels, 4 sensors and like 17 LEDs. All it'll do is follow a line of tape. I put a trail of light colored tape on a dark colored floor and it'll follow it right to the end. And it can be made in a single day if I have all the pieces. The other robots that I plan to build are mostly already mapped out in my mind (and some on paper). I just don't have the programming knowledge to make them. But when I do, you'll be sure to find a blog bragging about them. Expect one about my first robot in the next few weeks (hopefully sooner).