the (fabulous) beach lab

orbita^tm

open source modular micro-shelters for the market of one. self-sufficient, deployable housing designed with digital fabrication and parametric tools. grows and shrinks as life needs evolve.

architecture digital fabrication parametric design open source sustainability

orbita.you

tactile interface

capacitive controls for interior walls. conductive ink painted directly into the wall — no switches, no bezels. touch-sensitive zones with sound feedback, turning any surface into a seamless light control layer.

conductive ink capacitive sensing interior design embedded systems interface design

tactile-wall repository

alphabets^tm

a physical message board anyone can reach. place it in your living room, shop or window. let anyone send text that arrives letter by letter — mechanical, tangible, impossible to ignore. ai moderated.

split-flap messaging web interface ai moderated open source

alphabets repository

zyklopen^tm

stereo vision for home security. dual cameras with on-device ai inference detect threats in real time — no cloud, no latency. always watching, always local.

stereo vision ai inference home security edge computing open source

zyklopen repository

mamba^tm

satellite explorer for tiny and mobile houses. scout your surroundings by voice — find water, spot dangers, check obstacles in the path ahead. autonomous flight with ai-assisted terrain awareness.

autonomous drone voice control terrain mapping mobile living ai

mamba repository

nerd watch

Assembly port of Sam DeRose's binary wristwatch. two-layer pcb designed in python, cnc milled on a roland modela.

avr microcontrollers circuit design digital fabrication binary assembly

nerdwatch repository

sci.art

patterns
numbers
codes

the suitcase

your home services, at home. a portable server prototype for home automation, sensor data, energy monitoring and local ai — no cloud, no subscriptions, no one else's hardware. runs your intelligence, your way.

self-hosted local ai privacy home server open source

selfhosted github project

ios apps

native ios apps with liquid glass, core sensors and core location. hariburi — a travel unit converter. fmcu — proof your fab lab is still alive.

swiftui liquid glass core location core sensors app store

hariburi on app store fmcu on app store

binary space invaders

generative digital art you can display. infinite unique creatures born from pascal's triangle — each row spawns a new species through binary expansion, symmetric mirroring and procedural color. print it, frame it, project it.

generative art algorithmic displayable open source pixel art

jupyter notebook

parametric hydropropellers

geometry-nodes algorithm for parametric fluid micropropellers. built for microbubble research at sprin-d, the german federal agency for disruptive innovation.

blender geometry nodes fluid dynamics parametric design airfoils

sprin-d

mods

visual programming for digital fabrication. node-based dataflow from design to machine-ready toolpaths via webusb. community fork of the mit cba project, used across 2500+ fab labs.

visual programming digital fabrication webusb fab labs open source

modsproject.org source code

fmcu

proof of life for fab labs. custom hardware and iot stack that lets any fab lab broadcast it's still alive — live dashboard with mqtt telemetry, ios companion app.

microcontrollers linux mqtt node-red postgres

fmcu.fablabs.io

geospatial services

self-hosted geospatial infrastructure. heightmaps, custom map layers, terrain databases and tile services. built with gdal, qgis, postgis and vector/raster tile pipelines.

postgis osm gdal tile services selfhosted

maps.beachlab.org

good morning, real time telemetry

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uv index

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