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Building AI-native instruments and tools, enabling the makers of the future.

Software has thirty years of tooling behind it, and AI slotted straight into that. Hardware is still waiting for most of it. I build the instruments that close the gap — schematics, firmware, measurement rigs. Most of what I publish here started as a problem I was tired of solving by hand.

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The eight hours I threw away

Two sessions, twenty-eight hours and 167 prompts to invert a USB link. The useful decision came nine hours in, when I deleted everything and started again — and no test had failed.

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Calibration at machine speed

My programmable source needed a per-device calibration table. Claude swept 3,732 DAC codes in 25 minutes, discovered its own readings were wrong, and rebuilt the table against a second instrument — from about forty typed prompts.

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The inventory had to learn to read

I built a tool to check a BOM against my parts inventory before ordering. It worked, and then it didn't — because my own data was written in a dozen dialects.

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The site that deployed itself

This site is 82 commits old. Eighty-one of them were written with Claude, including the first one, which created the Cloudflare config. What changed was not my typing speed.

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Beyond vibe coding: give vibes to your designs

I did not design the UI for my bench instrument. I prompted, Claude offered variants, I picked one and said what was wrong with it. Selection is a different job to specification, and it needs far less of me.

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Going down the rabbit hole with AI

Six hours, forty-seven minutes and 122 prompts on a USB capture path. What pairing with Claude is actually good for is not the first draft — it is the fourth hour.

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