the (fabulous) beach lab

orbita

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

alphabets

open source mechanical split-flap display. direct drive motors, networked electronics, custom characters and colors. assemble in any layout from one to infinite modules. web-based control interface.

open source 3d printing laser cutting openscad electronics

alphabets repository

zyklopen and mamba

autonomous drone with stereo vision. dual pi camera 3 on raspberry pi 5 with hailo-8 ai accelerator. pixhawk flight controller, carbon fiber airframe, mil-std-810h validated.

ai drones digital fabrication computer vision mil-std

zyklopen repository 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

the wall

minimalist wall interface. capacitive touch sensing, ambient led state feedback, custom pcb. designed for daily tactile interaction, replacing conventional switches with invisible surfaces.

hardware interface prototypes capacitive touch embedded

sci.art

patterns
numbers
codes

the suitcase

self-hosted infrastructure. personal server running file storage, websites, backups and local ai models — full independence from cloud platforms.

independence linux hardware docker ai models

selfhosted github project

ios apps

native ios applications built with swiftui. real-time sensor dashboards, 3d model viewers, mqtt integration. designed for field use in fab labs and remote monitoring.

swiftui swift ios mqtt apple developer

hariburi on app store fmcu on app store

binary space invaders

generative pixel creatures derived from pascal's triangle. binary expansion mapped through convolution kernels, procedural coloring, symmetric mirroring. each row of the triangle spawns a unique alien species.

generative design pixel art python binary convolution

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

real-time control unit for planning, resource tracking and coordination across the fab lab network. custom hardware, iot stack, 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