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Deep dives into emerging tech, project retrospectives, and lessons learned building interactive experiences.
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Running Grok on a Keyboardless E-Ink Reader: A 380 KB Memory Odyssey
How I got xAI's Grok to deliver real-time news on an ESP32-C3 e-reader — fighting a fragmented heap on one side, and designing an LLM interaction with no keyboard on the other.
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How I integrated AI into an industrial process in one week — and what it taught me about operator UX
A real bottleneck on a food manufacturing floor, solved end to end in one week with AI as the extraction engine. What actually makes an AI tool usable by someone under time pressure.
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Excavator Training: AI Images and TTS in a Web POC
Real machine training is expensive and risky, and slide decks don't hold attention. I built a browser-based pre-op simulator using AI-generated imagery and voice narration instead of a full 3D asset pipeline.
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CarViewer: Why 3D Vehicle Inspection Beats 2D Photos
Buyers don't trust flat photos of a used car. CarViewer replaces them with an interactive 3D inspection they can run at their own pace, before ever meeting the seller.
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JaaiTang: Learning Thai Numbers Through a Cashier Game
Flashcards never made Thai numbers stick. JaaiTang trains the same recognition a real cashier transaction demands, under a timer, with no translation step. Built solo in 1-2 weeks, shipped on iOS.
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