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Building an LLM Robot with My Son — EP 0. Why We Started an AI Robot Project Series note : This is a retrospective — four months of work organized into ten episodes (EP 0 through EP 9) and published together. Each episode follows the actual sequence of events; the publication date is the same for all. This series isn't a finished project showcase. As I write EP 0, the starting point is exactly that — the beginning. There's a half-assembled acrylic chassis on my son's desk with one wheel still spinning in reverse. That's where we're starting. If you're in a similar situation — you want to do something technical with your kid but don't know where to begin — read this like you're watching someone else figure it out in real time. We Both Like Building Things My son loves LEGO. He's twelve, and he has the patience to sit with a Technic set spread across the floor and build it piece by piece from the manual. When it finally works, he gets that quie...