Your robot is now being built. You are bound to have questions about how to proceed and problems to be solved – perhaps you've already encountered them before building. This is the right time to get online and start linking with the robotics communities.
Use Twitter and Stack overflow to ask questions, or even answer questions from other robot builders. Use YouTube to share your creation, or the story of your build, and to see other people's builds. You do not need to wait until you have a perfect polished product, share the steps you've taken, the frustrations you have encountered, and even the failures you've learned from—these make for some of the best stories, and as you fill find with others, can be just the right motivation for someone else to keep on persisting with difficult builds.
Use a combination of YouTube...