My RoboSheep made it to the front page of Digg.com today :) Cool.

One thing I want to comment on is that some of the hardware people out there are complaining that this project isn’t that impressive, and some of the software people are complaining that the software isn’t that impressive. The point behind the whole thing is that from an amateur / non-techie perspective, and especially from a non-electrical engineering perspective, a lot of this stuff is *very* intimidating. By doing a project that is both a) straightforward, and b) rewarding / fun, the idea is to overcome the first and hardest part of the learning curve: that it is freaking intimidating to start building electronic circuits on your own without any formal training.

Having said that, I come from a deep software background, with a fair amount of (hands-off hardware knowledge), and I still found this project intimidating. But it’s still something that a smart high-school student could do. Hopefully, this article will help lower the bar for some of the people out there who want to get started in robotics but don’t know how.

[later] I also got linked from Make magazine. Thanks! :)