Vijay Raghav Varada

PCB: 135 parts, 514 pads, 4 layers. I designed almost none of it. An AI harness in VS Code calculated every part, read every datasheet, drew the schematic, checked its own work. What would you build if the next board cost an afternoon?

This Sunday, I'm bringing my 50+ vintage Casio collection to a room full of enthusiasts. Playdate, but for all curious adults in the house. Side Quests #1 by @101collective. Curious? Drop by → lu.ma/hxnxvk37 @avneer_bh @Bhoomiarora_

Sometimes it’s surprising to see how your product gets used in ways you never planned for. RapidTool: Fixtures was built with a clear intent: To create fixtures in minutes instead of hours, without specialised expertise, and to empower shopfloor and production engineers to break the shackles that slow down tool creation on the manufacturing floor. Very industrial. Very intentional. And then this happened. 🎮 A gamer used it to organise his PS5 controller. Not exactly the target persona… But absolutely the right signal. For me, this underlines a core philosophy I strongly believe in when building any product—no matter how technical it is. If the UI and UX are done right, the complexity disappears. It gets abstracted away. And that’s when true democratisation happens. Advanced technology doesn’t need to feel advanced to use. The tech can be complex. The experience shouldn’t be. If a shopfloor engineer can build a fixture in minutes, and a gamer can instinctively turn the same system into a controller organiser… then we’ve probably done something right. Unexpected use cases are often the best validation. Sometimes innovation looks like productivity gains. Sometimes it looks like a cleaner gaming desk. Both make me smile. 😄 portal.appliedadditive.com

If Asimov built AI agents, he’d ship an agents.md. Asimov’s Three Laws — rewritten for agents: 1) Safety: An agent may not injure a human… → No unsafe tool calls. No silent failures. Fail loudly. 2) Obedience: An agent must obey human orders… → Obey intent, not prompts. Policies before execution. 3) Self-preservation: An agent must protect its own existence… → Logs, state, replayability. If you can’t debug it, you can’t trust it. Ship autonomy last. Ship constraints first.

"Make in India" in Action at @fracktalworks 🇮🇳 📈 India's changing - more maker-friendly. Better policies, support, and talent. These aren't just machines. It's our resilience, grit, and belief in 'Make in India'. #MakeInIndia #3DPrinting #Aatmanirbhar #AatmanirbharBharat

Thank you @norahjones for spending 1,088 minutes with me this year on @Spotify. You are my #1. #SpotifyWrapped open.spotify.com/artist/2Kx7…

How fulfilling it was to set up our flagship 3D Printer and teach the faculty about its usage and applications. Their eagerness and enthusiasm to still keep learning new technologies and keep themselves updated regardless of their age and seniority is truely inspiring.

Excited to be part of this movement! @fracktalworks #COVID19

We call ourselves "The Peenya Pandemic Response Team". This beautiful bunch of people are the ones behind getting face shields, masks and sanitizer manufactured and delivered to hospitals and people across the… instagram.com/p/B-zLtngF1IC/…