Things I've Built
Outside of work, I build software and physical systems for curiosity, necessity, and fun. Some are polished; some are proofs of concept. The common thread: if a system has rules, it can be modeled.
Software & Agentic Infrastructure
Interactive 3D celestial sphere powered by pure-Elixir ephemeris computation. Phoenix streams topocentric sky positions into a React/WebGL scene, with live BEAM telemetry visible in the demo.
My public notebook for agent harness, memory, and orchestration experiments. The Substrate and The Cortex are shelved as products, but still capture reusable patterns for handoffs, capability contracts, and small-model coordination.
An exploratory product shelf for astronomy, astrology, and reality-modeling experiments. Part astronomy lab, part AI fever dream; not an active company push, but still the conceptual root of the ephemeris work.
ExVox
PrototypeA small Elixir speech-to-text experiment built before I settled into TypeWhisper. It explored OpenAI and local Whisper transcription paths, audio format handling, and voice capture as structured input.
Physical & Embedded Systems
Photo essays may come later; for now, these are builds I love talking about IRL.
2017
Converted a Dodge ProMaster into a tiny rolling Class B RV and lived in it for a year and a half. Framing, cabinetry, bed platform, insulation, finish work, and the systems thinking needed to make a small space actually work.
2017
Built a 24V lithium solar power system from recycled laptop 18650 cells for the van conversion. ElectroDacus BMS, pure sine inverter, solar charging, and enough stored power to live off-grid for long stretches.
Emergency Structural Shoring
Shipped2022
A structural engineer identified the southeast corner of a 1915 pier-and-beam house in Taylor, TX as "imminent collapse"; the structure had been modified five or six times over 100+ years. No contractor would take the job. Figured out how to shore up the entire structure so the critical corner column could be replaced.
Solo House Foundation Leveling
Shipped2025
Full pier-and-beam leveling of a 1915 Taylor, TX house. Jacks, beams, laser levels, joist sistering, weeks in the crawlspace, and a custom rail system designed with early GPT-4 help turned a crew-sized job into a careful, inspected success.
Gooey Tower
Active Lab2025-present
A private home-lab Linux box for local LLM inference, BEAM services, and agent workflow experiments. It represents the hardware and ops side of my current AI tooling practice without exposing anything public.
NetBSD Agent Platform (Raspberry Pi 5)
Prototype2026
Raspberry Pi 5 in an Argon ONE V5 case running NetBSD. The experiment reached boot and SSH, then paused after the talk path closed; the core idea was BEAM/OTP agents coordinating local inference on small, repurposable hardware.