The Domino Robot did not just magically appear into existence one day fully functional. It took over two years of design, testing, failure, and iteration to get to the final result. It’s often easy focus on only the end product and forget all about the difficult, meandering engineering journey it took to get there. So, I want to take you behind the scenes into what this journey looked like for me while designing the Domino Robot.

The hardware of ‘Dominator’ the Domino Robot was custom designed and the final version has a lot of parts to it. This article goes over the various hardware components of the robot in detail and explains what each piece does.

The software for the Domino Robot was designed from the ground up and is spread across three different computers. This article goes over all of the technical details about the various software modules, what they do, and how they work together to make the Domino Robot function.

I decided to try my hand at programming a basic AI from scratch using neural networks and genetic algorithms.

A few months back, I re-purposed some old computer parts to make myself a simple file server. I originally set everything up with Amahi because it promised to be simple and powerful. While it was a good stepping stone for me into the world of home servers, I quickly outgrew it's capabilities and wanted my own system that I had more control over. So, I set out to make my own with Ubuntu as the base OS and decided to try out Docker along the way