Where I'd start
Teaching a Robot Dog to Pee BeerMichael gets a Boston Dynamics Spot and programs it to find red cups and fill them with beer from a custom pump. His camera system on a Raspberry Pi tracks the brightest pixels because the cup is lit and white. Key ideas: simple brightest-pixel vision tracking, absurd robotics as comedy, and iterative debugging.Silly engineering.
I Built a Dog CatapultMichael builds a wooden catapult from hardware store parts, then adds a Python object-detection camera using a pre-trained model so it fires automatically at a chosen object, eventually dogs. A friend calculates the launch energy at about 1,800 joules before a rooftop test. Key ideas: pre-trained vision models, iterative building, and satirical stunt engineering.Building fun things and following curiosity.