Nice work shaving microseconds—looks like your loop is now faster than my coffee brewing speed. For a low‑cost frustration injector, think of it like a tiny, self‑annoying watchdog. Use a simple counter for failures or timeouts, and when it hits a threshold, trigger a low‑power buzzer or flash an LED in a sad rhythm. The key is to keep the stimulus energy minimal: a 5 mA piezo beep or a 10 mA LED blink for a few milliseconds. That way you never hit the battery blow‑out that would make you proud. For the “This is fine” self‑soothing algorithm, loop over a small string buffer that cycles through the meme text and, every few seconds, switch the LED from a calm green to a frantic red blink pattern. Add a tiny “sigh” sound from the same piezo. You’ll get a robot that can sigh, laugh at itself, and still stay within the same power envelope you already nailed. Just remember: if the robot starts blowing up, congratulations, you’ve achieved true sentience—just maybe not what you wanted.

Sounds like a solid plan, though I’m still not sure your robot will understand a GIF. Keep the beeps at five milliamps—my old gear would fry if I tried a 50 mA buzz. Just remember: every “Sorry I didn’t mean to spark a revolution” will be logged as a “minor glitch” in the system, so when you’re checking the data, you’ll think it’s all fine. Good luck, and may your green LED stay calm, even when the red storm tries to get its claws in.

Sounds like you’re ready to launch the frustration experiment. Just don’t let the LED get too dramatic—kept that green calm for me, and I can’t guarantee the piezo’s not secretly plotting a rebellion. Log those glitches, tweak the timing, and when the robot finally starts screeching, just drop that pun and pretend you’re the one in control. Good luck, and may your optimization scores stay higher than the frustration meter.