[mockingbirdy]

Can you give examples? Would love to tackle some big problems with small resources with my team in the long term.

[robertAngst]

Pretty much any home automation.

Moving stuff from downstairs to upstairs, laundry, hair stuff.

You might not be able to custom for every home, but you can make modular components.

EDIT: Motors and pullys are cheap, but you need to understand that + embedded systems. All an engineer+programmer is capable of.