Arduino programming + motor control (Stepper robots, for robotics - toy, not industrial) cobbled with 3D printing.

I've always been fascinated with robotics, and the barrier to entry is getting lower by the second.

But I want to know all the details, so I'm going slow and steady at it (Like, instead of using libraries - at least when learning - I'm coding 100% of the stepper motor control routines).

I plan on making my own designs, and make my own versions of known ones: The first thing I want to try my hand at is either (my own version of) a PolarGraph or an AxiDraw.

Then I'll move to other things, also in the early stages of designing a chess playing (arm) robot.