A grounded thought experiment in robotics, autonomy, and unintended consequences. I didn’t set out to test whether an AI could escape. It started, like most dangerous ideas do, with a late-night debugging session, a cup of coffee that was supposed to be the last one and a room full of hardware quietly humming along. The

Most “AI + robotics” posts are still simulations and slides.This one isn’t. This is the story of how we wired up a Raspberry Pi CM-5, a Raspberry Pi Pico W (running MicroPython), a small OLED display, a green LED, a camera, and an RTX 5090 into a system where: It’s “hello world”, but instead of