The Last Day
The final entry, written on the last day of school. Shooting the ads, designing the next line, and looking back at twenty two weeks of building NEURA in public.
Read the log →Down to the Millimeter
Back to the plastic: redesigning the shell to fit the robot down to the millimeter, running FCC style drop tests, and pushing the printer to its limits with different materials.
Read the log →The Story, Not Just the Robot
Building is only half the job. This week was about the message: a commercial, the ads, and telling people what NEURA actually is.
Read the log →When Software Dies, You Print
With my computer dead, the whole week became a 3D printing sprint: printing the body, dropping it on purpose, and reprinting it until it stopped breaking.
Read the log →The Week the Machine Quit
A huge software week, over a hundred new voice commands and on-demand image generation, and then my main computer died on Thursday and froze all of it.
Read the log →Ready for the Camera
Polish week before filming: hands-free voice control, video on the round face, gated movement, 37 expressions, and self-view vision.
Read the log →Making It Hear and Speak
NEURA can finally hear and speak: local transcription out, ElevenLabs in, and the first real answer out loud.
Read the log →The Robot Wakes Up
The whole NEURA brain finally runs on the physical robot, booting to a round wakeable face that restarts itself.
Read the log →Never Going Silent
This week NEURA got an offline brain, a circuit breaker, and a rule floor so it never goes silent.
Read the log →Personality and a Smarter Brain
This week NEURA stopped being a chat window and became something with attitude, memory, and hands.
Read the log →Neura Cloud, Part Two
Finished the optional cloud backend: a cloud brain on your own keys, a real-time phone-to-bot relay, and a hard security review.
Read the log →Neura Cloud, Part One
This week I started the optional cloud layer for NEURA, beginning with accounts and an encrypted vault for your keys.
Read the log →Neura in Your Pocket
This week NEURA left the desk and moved into my pocket, same face and personality, backed by home.
Read the log →The Nervous System
This week NEURA stopped being only software and started reaching toward a body, one careful contract at a time.
Read the log →Teaching It to Act, Not Just Talk
The week NEURA stopped just answering and started acting: a local skills system, plus split robot and computer modes.
Read the log →Giving Neura a Face and a Voice
This was the week NEURA stopped feeling like a program and started feeling like someone I know.
Read the log →Pitch, Jira, and the Final Design Doc
The pitch, a Jira roadmap, and a final design doc that surfaced hidden gaps and handed me a clear map.
Read the log →Building Toward OpenClaw Security
This week was about locking down how community skills run, so extending NEURA never means opening a hole.
Read the log →Upgrading the AI Layer with Ollama
This week I made NEURA model agnostic, so it can reach for the best cloud brain or run private and local.
Read the log →Locking In the Architecture
The unglamorous week I gave NEURA a clean monorepo and a real split between its brain and front end.
Read the log →Shipping the Core Engine
The week NEURA stopped being diagrams and notes and turned into a real engine I could open and run.
Read the log →Picking the Hardware and the Stack
Week one is all decisions: what NEURA is, and the Raspberry Pi and round screen it will run on.
Read the log →