AFK adventures have taken longer than anticipated, including the need to repair all my 3d printers: I never did have more than 2 working at a time, and now I have all 3 running. One of them occasionally likes to screech an error alarm without an error showing up though. Another requires a 500% filament flow rate in order to print without ghosting (still uses a comparable amount of filament as the other 2). Such silly machine spirits.
I have printed and laid out the torso motor mounts for my scaled-up robot dog base I hope to use for SPUD, I shall call it "Sploot". Hope that it stands about 3 ft tall.
I've been working with Gamemaker Studio recently, and might have come up with a solution to use that to introduce autonomous navigation for Sploot. It's a janky and goofy idea, I know. But I am familiar with the program and all the other autonomous navigation systems feel so esoteric to me.
SPUD's current sitting position makes her look like she has a spare tire and I'm too embarassed to post it here (she is too lol).
With the 3d printers working again I'll also start getting back into printing the mimi sentry files so I can have a body with which to do a public release of SPUD's code.