daniel watson
Daniel simulated a self driving car in a massive online class a few years ago. Since then he has worked towards making this happen in the real world. Along the way, he has learned a great deal about electronics, and mechanics.
http://challenge-bot.com/
erin bennett
Erin learned how to make her first robot a few years later in a class like this, and was super excited that the concepts she had learned for finding patterns in text could also be used to make robots respond to their environment appropriately.
http://challenge-bot.com/