My dog is spooked.. and now I am too (Patreon)

My next project is now under full swing... someone emailed me about the possibility of a hair cutting robot which got me thinking and one thing led to another... You know how it goes. Also I need a hair cut anyway so why not? The reason it sounds cool is that it's a really hard problem and the best solution I've found online is some people attaching a beard trimmer to a robotic arm. This needs to exist.

Hair has a mind of its own and doesn't want to be handled. This is where I expect basically all the complexity and iteration to be. There's some robotics required to run the show but nothing very precise or real time so it should mostly be boilerplate. 

I have a very rough design of an end effector that TOTALLY WORKS, at least in my imagination. The device is terrifying which is why I've acquired a head that isn't mine to do some initial testing on. My dog keeps barking at the head. 

If you want to follow along I'm posting updates in the #project-talk channel in discord. If you have projects you're working on you should post there too! Lots of good discussion so far on a range of things, including neuroscience which I am stoked to learn about :)  Discord is much easier to post quick updates and have discussion so I intend to post there quite a lot.