The Brain, The Body, and The Blue Screen: Why I’m Quitting Hardware
Programming Tech Brief By HackerNoon
Audio is streamed directly from the publisher (media.transistor.fm) as published in their RSS feed. Play Podcasts does not host this file. Rights-holders can request removal through the copyright & takedown page.
Show Notes
This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/the-brain-the-body-and-the-blue-screen-why-im-quitting-hardware.
I have a visual disability—20/400 vision in my right eye and zero peripheral vision. This makes hardware terrifying.
Check more stories related to programming at: https://hackernoon.com/c/programming.
You can also check exclusive content about #engineering, #hardware, #picar, #robotics, #software-developer-journey, #robotics-project, #hackernoon-top-story, #robotics-journey, and more.
This story was written by: @damianwgriggs. Learn more about this writer by checking @damianwgriggs's about page,
and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com.
I became a blind robotics engineer in October. In that project, I built a "Brain in a Jar" that could navigate complex mazes, remember where it had been, and backtrack out of dead ends. The goal was simple: Take the "Brain" I had already perfected in software and upload it into a "Body" of plastic and metal. The only thing left was the interface between us: the MicroSD card.