01Hardware bridge
keeBLEr
An ESP32-S3 bridge that turns a browser into a keyboard for almost any USB host—even a C64.
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Make more
with what we have.
AI parts and pieces, cobbled into useful new things. Lessons, guides, code, and working projects for combining today’s models, agents, interfaces, and hardware into tools and systems that actually work.
The workshop light is on. Start anywhere; follow what proves useful.
A field guide for building with AI.
AI changes faster than anyone can turn it into a tidy curriculum. So this is a living workshop notebook: honest lessons from real builds, repeatable guides, and code worth borrowing. The aim is not mastery of every model. It is the judgment to make models, agents, software, and machines cooperate.
Built here, not imagined
Meet the workshop projects
The lessons on this site come from making actual things. These 5 are the front windows; a much messier cabinet waits inside.
02Bench utility
Twiddle
A resilient local service that gives cheap, flaky BLE power meters stable names and clean readings.
Working toolOpen project →
03Desktop utility
Synology Share Downloader
A portable, resumable answer to the giant, fragile ZIP produced by Synology folder shares.
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04Model experiment
SeqGPT
A compact playground for teaching small transformers patterns you can see, measure, and interrogate.
Public experimentOpen project →
05Playful hardware
Shining Mask
CircuitPython, Bluetooth, a Wii Nunchuck, and an LED mask assembled into a wonderfully unnecessary puppet.
Public experimentOpen project →
5 projects are on the bench. Agent tools, physical bridges, data rescues, radio experiments, and a few delightful oddities.
Explore the project cabinetRecently useful
Open a workshop drawer
Start with a practical guide, a lesson learned the expensive way, or a small piece of code that earns its keep.
Context is a product, not a prompt
The quality of an AI system depends less on the cleverness of one instruction than on the small information product surrounding every call.
Context engineeringAgentsProduct thinking
Open the drawer A practical loop for reliable coding agents
A compact operating loop that helps a coding agent move from a vague request to a verified change without losing the plot.
Coding agentsVerificationWorkflow
Open the drawer Configuration seams that keep experiments shippable
A small TypeScript pattern for deferring provider choices to validated environment configuration without scattering conditionals everywhere.
TypeScriptConfigurationAI providers
Open the drawer How this place works
One village, four kinds of shop
01
Lessons
What held up, what broke, and what changed my mind.
02
Guides
Step-by-step paths from a blank page to a working result.
03
Code
Small, legible building blocks ready to adapt.
04
Field notes
Fresh observations that have not calcified into doctrine.