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How to Build a Shitty Robot
May 30, 2026
A €10 Silverlit YCOO NEO OCTOBOT toy robot gets gutted and rebuilt with an LLM-powered speech pipeline, replacing the original PCB with custom wiring, a speech-to-text and TTS stack, and an agent layer. The project deliberately uses only readily available materials to serve as a reproducible STEM build for parents and kids.