Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

  • Jack Daniel

    Well if life is a race, I just got lapped by a 15 yr. old :)

  • kurtnelle

    Kid you express yourself very well. Kudos.

  • Anonymous

    Add some suction to this thing and it becomes a cheap Roomba clone – (sorta).

  • Anonymous

    musicians don’t inspire kids to create?!?!?!?! get outta here, kiddo.

  • Anonymous

    Could it be due to his large cranial area that he so smart?

  • eustace

    Total awesomeness! A fifty-dollar-retail robot is quite an achievement for anyone, big corps included. Now if it were only Arduino-based…

  • dnafrequency

    Hahahahaah! Look, it’s Wesley Crusher!!

  • dnafrequency

    (I mean that as a compliment :)

    • Antinous / Moderator

      Was it the neutrino beam aimed at your center of gravity that made you clarify?

  • nforts

    Congratulations Brennon! Excellent interview, you express yourself so well. Good luck with the robot shop. When you are ready to hire employees, send me an application.

  • Reneelou

    Congrats, Brennon
    Funny you mentioned FB … my Wall turned into something mindless I didn’t like and got very upset about … so I left FB. Nothing beats a good book, a movie, listening to music … creating, but this I leave to others :)
    Good luck to you

  • JoshP

    Nice..
    Some CNC or a drill press would make the metal on the bot a little more pop.

  • Anonymous

    It is very refreshing to see a kid this young making a difference and not running the streets getting into trouble! If he continues, he should really go far in life! way to go kid!!

  • Anonymous

    I like how rappers and musicians were in separate categories :)

    But anyways, this is some really amazing stuff he’s doing. Most things I didn’t start doing at least until I got to high school.

    I like the kid.

  • Little John

    Wow, what an articulate young gentleman. And at 15.

  • rektruax

    Great kid… Hope he does well. In a surprising turn, I just posted him on FB. Though I do agree it’s a colossal waste of time for many young people.