Every year a cohort of makers, tinkerers and like-minded individuals descend upon UCD's campus for Science Hack day Dublin, a 36hr hackathon with creativity and a love of science at its heart. This year, I had the chance to join in on the fun.

Settle in for a long read; today I wanted to write about how I built my robot - straight from scratch.

Dublin Maker Faire was on and I brought my little rover along for the day.