I'm Edgar — most people call me Edgy. I've taken a gloriously non-linear route to get here. I fell in love with electronics as a kid, studied materials science, started a PhD in metallurgy and walked away from it, reinvented myself as a software engineer, and these days I spend my time exploring AI and robotics.

The common thread through all of it is the same one I've had since I was small: an irresistible need to open things up and find out how they work. This is where I write that down — the builds, the dead ends, the things I learn while reanimating the machines I'm curious about.

One of my earliest memories is of Ar-tur — a remote-controlled robot, and one of my very first toys. I remember steering him across the room to bring me a towel after a shower.

He didn't last long. I was far too curious about what was inside, so I opened him up to see how he worked — and he never recovered. Decades later, this project is my attempt to bring Ar-tur back: to finally understand, and rebuild, the machine I took apart as a child. It starts with a single motor and ends, eventually, with a robot that can cross the room again.

"Ar-tur didn't survive a month. I was too curious about how he worked."