This Maker Monday, we’re sharing our favourite build from the latest issue of Raspberry Pi Official Magazine — and we think readers of our blog might also be big fans of this sci-fi stalwart.

Project Hail Mary is a 2026 film based on the novel of the same name by Andy Weir, who also wrote the book that The Martian is based on. Both films feature an everyman forced to rely on deep scientific knowledge to survive, and we’d highly recommend them. The star of Project Hail Mary is not, as the marketing materials would have you believe, Ryan Gosling — it’s a robot named Rocky. Leviathan Engineer had a go at building his own Rocky with a Raspberry Pi and a dose of AI. 

The build uses a 4GB Raspberry Pi 5, a PCA9685 servo driver HAT, an internal microphone and speaker, and seven servos to make Rocky’s legs move (plus an additional power supply, because asking a Raspberry Pi to power seven servos is a bit much).

The maker installed Claude Code on the Raspberry Pi to take care of all the programming. This entails recognising speech, generating replies in the manner of Rocky from the film, and then using text-to-speech to make Rocky talk back to the user. Thanks to AI, the user can tell Rocky to do things that haven’t been preprogrammed: Leviathan Engineer shows an example of the machine responding to his request for a fist bump.

Creating the 3D-printed body proved challenging. Because the maker used multicoloured filament, the print required some adjustment in the slicer software; rather than being oriented for the most efficient print, the body and legs were arranged so that the filament would change colour in horizontal gradients.

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Aliu Adewale: The New Scrum Master Trap—Being In Everyone's Business to Look Busy

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"Sometimes the best architecture and design comes from a self-organizing team." - Aliu Adewale

When Aliu first became a Scrum Master, he wanted to be everywhere. New to the role, new to the organization, with a new team relying on him to deliver, he scheduled extra check-ins, sat in on everything, and made sure his manager could see him working. The result wasn't visibility—it was suffocation. The team felt he was in their business, and the deliveries he was trying to protect got worse, not better. Aliu's wake-up call came from his coach, who told him a sentence he still carries: "Stepping back gives your team the space to take ownership and unlock their true potential." The hardest thing a new Scrum Master can do is let things roll on their own for a Sprint or two and adjust through the retrospective. But once Aliu did it, the team started self-organizing, owning their day-to-day, and delivering beyond his expectations. The lesson he names is Agile principle number 5: build projects around motivated individuals, give them the support they need, and trust them to get the job done. The deeper insight from Vasco in this episode: when we want to be in our team's business, it's usually because we don't trust ourselves to know enough—so we try to know everything.

In this episode, we refer to Turn the Ship Around! by David Marquet, which Vasco recommends for any Scrum Master learning to step back, and to the Agile Manifesto.

Self-reflection Question: What are you doing this week to "be visible" that the team would actually be better off without?

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Matthew Renze is an AI researcher, consultant, and author, and the founder of Renze Consulting, where he has trained over 500,000 software developers and IT professionals worldwide. He has delivered over 200 keynotes, presentations, and workshops on every continent — including Antarctica — for clients ranging from tech startups to Fortune 500 companies. A nine-time Microsoft MVP in AI, Matthew is also the president of the Renze AI Research Institute, where he studies how self-reflecting large language model agents improve problem-solving performance, trustworthiness, and value alignment. Most recently he was accepted into the Doctor of Engineering program at Johns Hopkins University, and he featured as an interview subject in the 2026 documentary "AI Everywhere."

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Our OpenClaw agent ("Bob") - Bob's website: https://bobrenze.com/
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Stage 1 - Communicating in steps with an AI assistant
- ChatGPT - https://chatgpt.com/
- Claude Chat - https://claude.ai/

Stage 2 - Collaborating on tasks with an AI agent
- GitHub Copilot - https://github.com/features/copilot
- Claude Code - https://claude.com/product/claude-code
- OpenAI Codex - https://openai.com/codex/

Stage 3 - Supervising processes with an agentic workflow
- LangChain / LangGraph - https://www.langchain.com/langgraph
- Microsoft Agent Workflows - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/agent-framework/workflows/

Stage 4 - Managing a project with an autonomous agent
- OpenClaw: https://openclaw.ai/
- Hermes: https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/

Stage 5 - Leading a mission with an autonomous agency
- PaperClip AI: https://paperclip.ing/

Fireworks AI: https://fireworks.ai/

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Previous Appearances on the Azure & DevOps Podcast:

Episode 44 — Matthew Renze on Data Science for Developers https://azuredevopspodcast.clear-measure.com/matthew-renze-on-data-science-for-developers-episode-44

Episode 220 — Matthew Renze: Developing Your AI Strategy https://azuredevopspodcast.clear-measure.com/matthew-renze-developing-your-ai-strategy-episode-220

Episode 249 — Matthew Renze: AI Ethics https://azuredevopspodcast.clear-measure.com/ai-ethics-with-matthew-renze-episode-249

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