💻 Builder. Ever curious. Create things. Share what I learn. Explore the world. Love. Not necessarily in that order.
🇨🇦 Montreal, QC, Canada
Joined December 2011
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Pepper: the Curta Type I, the mechanical calculator you hold in one hand. One stepped drum, carries that run column after column.
Every gauge reads the same model that moves the parts.
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2. Radial: the Pratt & Whitney R-2800, an 18-cylinder twin-row radial. The starter, the firing order round the star, a master rod and its eight articulated rods, the cam rings, take-off rpm. Not affiliated with Pratt & Whitney.
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3 new incredible machines on Exploded, to take apart in your browser.
1. Rope: the Apollo Guidance Computer and its DSKY. A program woven into core rope, one kind of gate, and the 1202 alarm of Apollo 11. Not affiliated with NASA or MIT.
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I wanted to see what’s inside a photonic quantum computer. Here's one in 3D in the browser, real numbers included.
It’s mostly lasers, fibre loops and detectors at 2.5 K. The plumbing I get. The physics, still working on it. 🙂
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A 3.5" 7,200 rpm hard drive in the browser. Every gauge reads the model that moves the parts: 15 m/s under the head at the inner edge, 35 m/s at the outer one, a seek drawn live, a head flying 3 nm above the platter.
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Live telemetry on my desktop, memory in Obsidian. It's starting to learn its own routes. And it says hi when it sees me. And it has a SpaceX-style control tower 👇
Weekend PoC: Meet J-E-F-E 🤖 I put an Android phone on a Thymio II robot: on-device face detection (ML Kit), whisper.cpp ears, local reflexes in 0.5 s, an LLM brain for the rest, and a bandit that learned the best 2.4 s pivot to escape corners. Plus a SpaceX-style control tower. 🤖
#Thymio #robotics #MLKit #whispercpp
What crossed my radar this week:
· An ESP32-S3 that turns any USB printer into an AirPrint printer
· Claude Code goes multiplayer
· Solar quietly overtaking nuclear
· An open-source voice assistant on an ESP32 for Hermes
· Lightpanda (headless browser for agents)
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Every effect has optimisation steps with their cost, the code of two languages side by side, and the full source a click away.
Code (MIT): github.com/algotitanhq/babel…
