Jayce Chow got good at Arduino coding really fast. He wants to take over the world with robots "because lasers." His favorite color is red, which is a good color for lasers. He has done most of the laser-cutting for this project because, again, lasers. The laser-cutter laser is not red. Neither is the Arduino, but that didn't stop him from almost singlehandledly writing all the code to make our early prototypes walk. In fact, he used both hands. I watched him. But not too much, that would be creepy.

Juanita Desouza is wearing a hat. Or at least she was, on the day the pictures were drawn. This has changed, since the weather got warmer. It's December. Why did the weather get warmer? El Niño, probably. Maybe climate change? She's been doing a lot of the CAD, and thinks the OnShape mates are "hella weird." Though she is mildly terrified by the number of parts our hexbot has, she has been bravely forging forward and keeping the model from exploding as we make tiny changes that ripple outwards like the air disturbances from a butterfly's wings, only instantaneous and reality-warping.

Rocco DiVerdi can jump really high. This has not proven to be a useful skill in this project yet, as our hexbot cannot jump and has not challenged him to a jumping contest. Skills that have proven useful are the ability to remember to bring his toolbox, the knowledge of how to use ROS, the grammatical flexibility to make "thing" into any part of speech necessary, and the possession of a large number of robotic components. I don't mean he's made of robotic components, though I haven't checked.  His favorite animals are dragons. Does that sound like something a robot would say? Yes.

Marie-Caroline Finke knows a whole bunch of languages. She also has a good idea how big a millimeter is. And an inch. She is the voice of the hexbot, by which I mean she wrote a lot of the website, not that the hexbot can speak German. She also had a hand in its guts, wrangling wires, melting metal, and keeping the magical smoke where it belongs. On a scale from 1 to ice cream, she thinks the hexbot is awesome as dragons.

  Rebecca Jordan draws on whiteboards. She also screws in screws, twists Pythons into useful shapes, and reminds everyone to blog. If the hexbot had sails, she would know how to set them. When not building hexbots, she is a part-time captain on a sentient airship with spider legs, although she's not quite as rogueishly handsome as her portrait in real life. Is it the chin? I think it's the chin. Also, she doesn't like canteloupe.