Homemade telepresence robot. I saw an episode of the Big Bang Theory where they used one and I figured it would be neat to make one for myself, so I did. Its basically a glorified laptop stand that uses the laptop as the brains, any video conferencing program for the eyes, and a Pololu Maestro to control the movement. I wrote a small C# program to link up between two instances of itself over the internet and allow for remote control of the robot. My goal was to keep it simple into order to minimize the work put in and maximize the reward gotten from the project. I have to say, it worked out well.
