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My initial robotics project was a disaster. I'd spent weeks building a tight rover, and it worked—until it didn't. The wheels spun, the sensors blinke...
In late August, a 30-acre organic farm in California's Central Valley faced a crisis. Half of their seasonal crew hadn't shown up. The owner had two c...
It started with a broken YAML parser. A Friday afternoon, a Slack thread, and a junior engineer named Priya who couldn't get her CI pipeline to stop f...
You've got a room full of teens who need to learn a real trade. They're not here for theory — they want to weld, pick, place, and see the arm move. Bu...
Picture this: you and a handful of friends start hacking on an automation project in a garage. Shared SSH keys, a single VM running on old hardware, a...
When Millie's ultralyx scheduling bot started sending workers interview tips instead of shift reminders, nobody panicked. They listened. That was six ...
Three years ago, the automation team at a mid-sized factory in Ohio was buzzing. They had just secured funding for an ultralyx prototype — a modular, ...
Your community assemble just cleared the factory safety audit. Feels good, proper? But here is the thing: passing an audit is not a clean bill of heal...
The sign on the door said 'Closed for Renovation.' Inside, Maria, the shop's owner, stood over a pile of aluminum extrusions, stepper motors, and a co...
The worst career advice I ever heard was "just pick whichever pays more." It came from a senior engineer who had never worked a weekend outa...
The first time I saw it, I thought someone had left a Roomba on the sidewalk. But this was no vacuum. It was a squat, solar-powered bot with a single ...