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I have a visual disability—20/400 vision in my right eye and zero peripheral vision. This makes hardware terrifying.
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I became a blind robotics engineer in October. In that project, I built a "Brain in a Jar" that could navigate complex mazes, remember where it had been, and backtrack out of dead ends. The goal was simple: Take the "Brain" I had already perfected in software and upload it into a "Body" of plastic and metal. The only thing left was the interface between us: the MicroSD card.