I've always liked to build things. My favorite toy when I was really young was rope. I loved to tie knots and I would tie things up all over the house. My dad told me that one day I tied the vacuum cleaner up so well it took 20 minutes to free it. I would often string ropes across my bedroom and tie them together into a giant web-like net, then hang toys off the various ropes.
Around when I was seven, I got a Robosapien toy robot for Christmas. It was two feet tall, and it could walk, move, dance and fart, which seemed really funny. Right away I thought robots were cool.
After that, I discovered the Lego Mindstorms robot platform and started asking for one. When I was eight I got one as a gift and soon after that I started a First Lego League team with some friends. FLL was challenging, but we made it past the local qualifier and won a judges choice award against fifty other teams at the regional championships. Through participating in FLL I started to realize that I was decent at building things, or what my dad calls mechanical engineering.
Now I'm thirteen and my interest in robots has really taken off. I still do FLL every year, and now robot-building has become my biggest hobby. Since I'm more interested in design and mechanics, I mainly use the Lego Power Functions and Lego Technics platforms for my experiments. When I'm not doing homework or playing soccer I tend to build bots, and on a good day I might build several different designs. One of my favorite things is to battle robots against each other. Basically I think robots are awesome, and my dad jokes that I am half robot, so that's what I decided to name my blog.
I am going to use this blog to keep track of some of my creations and the thoughts that occur to me as I'm building and experimenting. Hopefully I can help others with some of my ideas.
