I think the key is to leverage your existing skill sets. I'm primarily a coder so many of these hacks were technical, and their audience was HN. The other thin

I think the key is to leverage your existing skill sets. I'm primarily a coder so many of these hacks were technical, and their audience was HN. The other thing is to start with shortcuts. The robot's hardware I used mainly from a kit, and that left only the software.