Shitty robots, I’m convinced, will one day save us all. In the not-too-distant future, when things look irreversibly bleak, I know some backyard bodger will accidentally come up with a source of infinite, clean energy using nothing more than dodgy soldering, hacked-together code, and a scarred Raspberry Pi. Today, though, is not that today. Today, someone built a robot in a pizza box that uses facial recognition to blind anyone who walks in front of it.
I still think it’s great.
The bot in question was created by 19-year-old university student Michael Reeves, a debutant on the shitty robot scene who looks like one to watch. Reeves coded the software for the robot in C# using an off-the-shelf facial recognition database, and built the...
