I was about 13, and during that summer,
I started reading online and I stumbled 
across some various websites.
I've always like creating things, and I found some electronics I could actually create,
and that just sparked it.
 
I was mainly looking at instructables.com, letsmakerobots.com,
all these various communities of people 
building and talking about
creating different things and sharing 
everything they were making, which
made it very useful for me to learn by
 copying others
and then add my own insights as I learned.
 
I try to make technology, approachable and fun.
I think getting the general public interested in some of this new technology is very important.
The Connect Four robot is able to detect
 your move, so it knows where you put it.
So as you actually drop a chip inside the board, the robot thinks a little bit and it responds.
So you can play against the robot, 
but often times it wins.
 
The Maze Solving Robot is a little robot.
Its got two wheels.
Its got some sensors on the front that face downwards and its able to detect black and white color.
So it goes through the maze, goes 
through a lot of dead ends, but
what it does at the end, is it calculates the shortest path to get through the maze.
So you could put it back at the start and its going to drive straight to the end just based off these calculations.
 
The useless machine, which is as the name implies very useless.
Its got an on and off switch, and all it
 does is that you turn it on
and there's a little arm that comes out
 and it turns itself back off.
 
Building robot has really taken to me to
 my dream college MIT.
I've gotten internships at robotics start ups,
I'll be at Space X building rockets, but no
 matter what you're building
its a lot of fundamentals that you're learning.
You're learning how to write code, you're 
learning how to use electronics, design circuits,
and of course those techniques are used in everything.
Something like the Maze Solving Robot is the basis of
a lot of other technologies, like building a 
robot vacuum cleaner,
or a Google self-driving car.
 
I really just hope a lot of people go out 
and build more robots.
That's all I've ever wanted.
I think more robots in the world is just going to make a more entertaining and interesting world.
