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Engineering notes from things I build and learn.

Oct 2, 2026
My first robot arm: Robotics 101 with the SO-101

From a box of parts to an arm that dances, reacts to a thumbs-up, and pushes a tomato into a hole. The steps, in plain terms, for anyone new to robotics.

Sep 20, 2026
What it’s actually like to run a small LLM on your own Mac

A 7.6-billion-parameter open model on an Apple M5 Pro: what it costs, how fast it is, what is inside the file, and where it gets things confidently wrong.