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Like combat robots?
The wood workbench for the CNC cabinet sorta looks hand built and cabin like, and then the rest has a sort of background firewatch sorta older home aesthetic that made me think Cabin. The angles also made it look smaller/like it had less rooms than a house would, and things like the bar you were hanging off of also seemed a bit strange to just be in a regular house (like who just has a horizontal bar running from one side of an indiscriminate room to another sort of thing).
In hindsight I can see it being a house but thats what made me think it.
And now you live in a boat off the coast of Costa Rica like many other digital nomads (Is what I am guessing based on this and the software developer part).
Antweight, yep! Though I just meant I own a lot of manufacturing robots, the antweight thing is just a coincidental hobby.
God, I wish. Software development pays really well... if you don't have a specialization that shunts you into the public sector. And then you get laid off because of the political climate in the US.
Hahaha, totally abnormal - it was real fun to think up an explanation for what it was when my mother just wandered into my room... and it was a real pain to install, let me tell you what. Makes sense about the cabin though, thank you for explaining! I just have access to a lot of 2x4s, hence the amount of wooden construction in the background...
What type of bot/s do you have/are you planning to build? Meta vert spinner? Meat and potatoes horizontal? Control bot? Entirely too technical and expensive to be practical at antweight flipper?
Like industrial "rip your hand off without bogging down" arms or ?? and why?
That sounds like the least coincidental thing possible considering they can't exactly be used for anything else can they?
Everyone wants the coveted silicon valley stress for 5 years then retire and coast off your resume position dont they.
Ah no I just meant it was a coincidence that when I said robots, referring to my milling machines, you guessed one of the main things I do with them (combat robots). I do technically own an arm, but it's just a small 2.5-axis tray placing arm, everything else I have is just various flavors of CNC or 3D printing equipment. And as to why I own them: I'm really bad with money and my autistic hyperfocus is robots. IDK man they're just cool.
(Is there really a difference between a vert spinner and an antweight flipper...?) I have a beaterbar bot, but my local group plays with an arena floor that isn't flat so the meta has really been shifting towards control bots since they're the least reliant on clearance for success (looking at you, wedgebots. Looking at you with scorn in my gaze). But! I've been messing around with a hammerspinner design that I'm really hoping will bring back the carnage that's been really missing in the pin-heavy matches lately.
Turns out those jobs are really hard to get, damnit...
It's what I plan to do when I have enough time and space since I already do makery things when I'm feeling up to it, so I figured, if you already have a work bench and CNC machine, there are very few low stress/investment things you can make with one and this is one of the more fun ones.
Like sure you could be making product prototypes or tools etc, but all of those are like getting a second job. Combat robots is like once every 2 months you have 2 days of fun getting your shit torn apart and figuring out what you fucked up at the design or assembly stage, or that your control scheme is jank.
I mean, one can do actual damage, has additional difficulty driving with the gyro effect, and flips bots and, the other can turn the other bot upside down temporarily.
Yup, and you might not be selling your soul, but you're certainly leasing it.