Hi everyone!

If you were following this project throughout the Hackaday Prize, and maybe before that with Fab Academy, you might have noticed that there were not so many updates once September rolled around. Read on for the details!

Back in September I started a fellowship called Studio[Y] at the MaRS Discovery District, Canada's leading innovation hub. It is with a cohort of 25 young leaders.

The fellowship is focussed on social entrepreneurship. It's a great opportunity to bring my technical knowledge here and mix it with questions such as:

• To what end?
• What impact will it have?
• What does the system look like- Who are the key players?
• Where are the leverage points?

Usually when we are prototyping robots, or our projects, if we are not on a team, it can be an oversight to evaluate the problem and what impact we want to have, as a whole.

I've been learning new lessons each day. It's valuable to be able to shift mindsets to evaluate problems through different lenses. Learning what questions to ask to become more knowledgable about the problems. As well as tools to utilise for further investigation.

There's a self-directed phase of the fellowship starting at the end of November. I still love this project, but we will see what happens at that time. I definitely have to refine the problem definition and evaluate the system more in depth. Either way, a better name would definitely be required. ;)

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If you are still reading updates about this project and still interested, thank you for hanging around!