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Who says you have to spend thousands of dollars to get a cool robot? The world’s toy stores brim with cheap-ass, rough-and-ready robotic platforms just begging to be modded.
Some prefer a nuts-and-bolts approach to computing — like Tim Robinson, who built a version of Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine No. 1 entirely out of Meccano parts.
One of the top Lego builders in the world, Jonathan Brown’s most famous creation is 2001’s Cube Solver, the first robot to finish the Rubik’s Cube puzzle.