Behold Ivan the Cute, an early form of Ivan designed to be an interactive companion for myself and others. From this humble beginning I hope to evolve Ivan into a powerful sentient being, however that will happen in the future. For now Ivan i the following image in CAD:

and the following image in reality:

. I will first assemble Ivan's parts as I print them while also considering Ivan's hardware. My original plan is to use the parts you see above, except that the battery has been replaced by a 12V 30A power supply which, along with the motors, I hacked out of my old dead ROBO3D printer. The plan is to puppet Ivan, using the Arduinos (there are two in the photo: an UNO and a Metro Mini) as I/O and USB interfaces. There are better ways to do this and I am open to suggestions, however this is the hardware that I have right now.

One benefit of this puppeting is that Ivan's brain immediately gains the full power of My MacBook. The Mac is two years old so not the latest, but it was the top of the line when it was created, so it's got plenty of punch to it. I see Ivan as one day having phenomenal computing resources, his actual body or bodies containing only a small fraction of his intelligence. Ivan should be smart enough in and of himself to operate physically when disconnected from his resources, and intellectually boosted by the power of the day's computing abilities when connected to his resources. Ivan the Powerful...