In the past couple of days, I’ve been working on my first real robot. It is so hideous that I decided to name it Turpis, Latin for the word ugly. It runs on two motors that are not geared (bad idea) and uses two more bumper switches to navigate. I’ve been having trouble getting my computer to recognise the axe023 microcontroller I’m using. For more information visit http://letsmakerobots.com/node/760.