Node Bots

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Builds an art-making robot with Node.js, Express, HTML5 canvas, a custom Vector module, Johnny 5 and socket IO; core logic reduces to two decisions — pen down/up and move/turn — implemented as random booleans. Demos partially fail (hardware and crashes) but the robot produces drawings and the claim is that when decision-making is embedded the machine can be treated as the artist. Working prototype, intermittent hardware glitches, clear reproducible stack.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:14What are Node Bots
3. 2:37Pushing Node Bots boundaries
4. 5:33Building ArtBot
5. 6:42Adding cursor robot
6. 8:52Art automation questions
7. 11:23ArtBot sentience analysis
8. 13:13ArtBot drawing demo
9. 15:26Critique of ArtBot art
10. 16:53Future of robotics with Node
11. 17:16Key takeaway

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