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You’re leaning against the lockers, the kind of spot nobody pays attention to but everyone knows. A jittery idea keeps bubbling up in your brain, almost electric. Maybe it was that wild science lab this morning or one of those robot showdown clips you binged last night. Suddenly, the question hits you and won’t settle down: Doesn’t our school have …

The word ‘robot’ might sound like something from a sci-fi flick, yet kids tinkering in their bedrooms are proving it as real as a laptop. If that idea excites you, you’re in good company. Welcome to home robotics. Surprisingly, a garage full of tools or a fancy engineering diploma isn’t required for your first build. What pays off is plain …

The Brooklyn Robot Foundry first registered on my radar as yet another pop-up STEAM fad, its name clanking with hype. A spontane-ous drop-in, curtain rain rattling against Brooklyn glass, rewrote that assumption in minutes. Inside the humming workshop, gadget guts sprawled across every work-bench. There was no syllabus in the air, only motion, chatter, and an un-commonsensical feeling of play. …