Letting the world know
You are bound to have questions about how to proceed and problems to be solved—perhaps you've already encountered them before building. When you have questions or have made some minor progress, it is the right time to get online and link with the robotics communities, as shown in the Online robot building communities section of Chapter 18, Taking Your Robot Programming Skills Further.
Use Twitter and Stack Overflow to ask questions or even answer questions from other robot builders. Use YouTube to share your creation or the story of your build and see other people's builds. You do not need to wait until you have a perfectly polished product. Share the steps you've taken, the frustrations you have encountered, and even the failures you've learned from. Failure situations make for some of the best stories. These stories can be just the right motivation for someone else to keep on persisting with complicated builds.
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