Independent invention / APX Build

One mind.
Many possible
futures.

I connect software, machines and human experiences—then work out how they can become real.

Concept illustration of an invention workshop with machines and technical studiesThe invention notebook
Software × matter × systems
A studio imagined / concept artwork
46project studies
23physical explorations
3connected disciplines

01 / Selected work

Different fields.
The same restless curiosity.

Mountain data, electronic books, predictive systems, quiet game surfaces. Each starts with a question about what could exist.

02 / The mind behind the work

I start with something
I want to exist.

A book with electronic leaves. A mountain you can read as a living system. A workshop that remembers what happened at the bench.

My work is in choosing the question, connecting disciplines, shaping the system and deciding what is worth building. I use AI, code, open-source tools and fabrication to extend that work.

The idea gets interesting when it meets a constraint: a power budget, a moving cable, a missing source, a player who does something unexpected. That is where imagination becomes a design.

Independent direction. Across software, physical products and R&D.
01

Find the connection.

Bring ideas from different fields together around a specific human experience or useful capability.

02

Work through the mechanism.

Explain the components, interfaces and trade-offs that could make the idea function.

03

Define what proves it.

Name the smallest complete demonstration—and the result that would justify going further.

03 / The complete portfolio

A body of work.
And a field of possibilities.

Released software sits alongside prototypes and design research. Open a study to see the intention, mechanism and next test.

Showing 46 projects

Concept artwork for CrapGPT.lol
Digital / Released

CrapGPT.lol

A curated multi-model chat platform — pick the model, not the wrapper.

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Concept artwork for PRAETOR
Digital / Alpha

PRAETOR

NZ legal research engine drawing on four verified sources, built for practitioners who need citations they can trust.

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Concept artwork for CourtVision
Digital / Alpha

CourtVision

NBA analytics and editorial site — Elo models, a daily brief, and a podcast, all generated and published autonomously.

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Concept artwork for Hormuz Monitor
R&D / Alpha

Hormuz Monitor

A news monitor tracking Strait of Hormuz shipping realignment, with a daily cached brief and an animated map.

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Concept artwork for Ruapehu Live
R&D / Alpha

Ruapehu Live

A live 3D digital twin of Mt Ruapehu — real-time GeoNet, MetService and field-station feeds rendered in Three.js.

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Concept artwork for MAINLINE
Digital / Prototype

MAINLINE

A top-down US prison strategy RPG — resource pressure, politics and survival inside Calder Ridge.

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Concept artwork for Hark
Digital / Prototype

Hark

A public-domain audiobook player with synthetic narration — the classics, read aloud on demand.

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Concept artwork for Southern Skies
Digital / Prototype

Southern Skies

A two-player jet shoot-em-up flying the length of New Zealand under a fictional drone occupation.

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Concept artwork for ORACLE
Digital / Exploration

ORACLE

A Myst-like puzzle game exploring esoteric systems and forgotten mechanisms — the Age of the Wheel slice is playable.

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Concept artwork for Taxidermy Animatronics
Physical / Exploration

Taxidermy Animatronics

ESP32-driven animatronic builds inside taxidermy mounts — servo-driven motion, camera eyes, mic and speaker.

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Concept artwork for Cabinet
Physical / Prototype

Cabinet

A MAME arcade front end with AI-generated art and Palmerston North-themed homebrew mini-games, built for real cabinet hardware.

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Concept artwork for Claude of Duty
Digital / Prototype

Claude of Duty

A browser FPS that generates its battlegrounds from real-world map data.

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Concept artwork for Echoes of the Glyph
Digital / Exploration

Echoes of the Glyph

A narrative browser RPG built around a dystopian sci-fi caste-system setting.

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Concept artwork for HallOS
Physical / Exploration

HallOS

A multi-tenant interactive TV OS for shared spaces.

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Concept artwork for The Hidden Crate
Digital / Exploration

The Hidden Crate

A boutique beat marketplace concept, built as a working Cloudflare Worker prototype.

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Concept artwork for LearnForge
Digital / Exploration

LearnForge

An L&D SaaS concept using a physics-based curriculum library as its content spine.

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Concept artwork for Next Best Step
Digital / Prototype

Next Best Step

A cognitive assessment platform that generates interactive-fiction psychometric instruments.

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Concept artwork for NZ Money Flows
Digital / Prototype

NZ Money Flows

An interactive visualisation of New Zealand's international money flows.

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Concept artwork for OBE Podcast
Digital / Prototype

OBE Podcast

An automated paranormal narrative podcast — synthetic voices, a full cast, self-hosted RSS.

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Concept artwork for OPEN SEO
Digital / Prototype

OPEN SEO

An SEO analysis tool platform that only accepts real URLs, not bare domains.

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Concept artwork for ORACLE XI
Digital / Exploration

ORACLE XI

A World Cup 2026 forecasting engine built on calibrated prediction models.

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Concept artwork for Palmy Rally
Physical / Prototype

Palmy Rally

An HTML5 canvas arcade racer set in real Palmerston North map data, built for a local artspace cabinet.

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Concept artwork for Race for What's Left
Digital / Exploration

Race for What's Left

A game project tracking country-level player stats in a race against depletion.

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Concept artwork for REPOYIELD
Digital / Prototype

REPOYIELD

A weekly scanner ranking the top five GitHub repos by clone activity and ROI potential.

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Concept artwork for Substrate
Physical / Exploration

Substrate

A cognitive home OS running on a Raspberry Pi 4 with a supervised swarm of agents.

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Concept artwork for World Prediction Machine
R&D / Exploration

World Prediction Machine

An autonomous forecasting platform that crawls the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine for signal.

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Concept artwork for ShiftScript
Digital / Released

ShiftScript

An NZ compliance SaaS platform, shipped as the enterprise product Workstep.

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Concept artwork for Way of Leadership
Digital / Released

Way of Leadership

A self-built Confucian leadership curriculum platform, live as its own brand.

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Concept artwork for SkySpar
Physical / Design development

SkySpar

A lightweight fixed-wing UAV using an old Android phone as its brain and ArduPilot for flight control.

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Concept artwork for Flix Micro-Quadcopter
Physical / Exploration

Flix Micro-Quadcopter

An open-source ESP32 micro-drone with a mostly 3D-printed frame, investigated as a cheap first build.

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Concept artwork for ESP32 Rover Platform
Physical / Exploration

ESP32 Rover Platform

A small wheeled robot for experimenting with sensors, cameras and mobility without building a full-sized robot.

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Concept artwork for Automated Miniature Table
Physical / Exploration

Automated Miniature Table

A gaming table with a magnetic carriage underneath that physically moves miniatures on its own.

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Concept artwork for Atlas E-Paper Chessboard
Physical / Design development

Atlas E-Paper Chessboard

A touch e-paper chess computer with Stockfish and Lichess support, evolving toward a furniture-grade smart games table.

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Concept artwork for KOKU E-Paper Book
Physical / Exploration

KOKU E-Paper Book

A multi-page e-paper reader that behaves like a physical book instead of a single-screen tablet.

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Concept artwork for Solari AI Egg
Physical / Exploration

Solari AI Egg

A printed egg-shaped ambient AI object that rests in a weighted nest doubling as its charging dock.

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Concept artwork for Ambient Listening Tapestry
Physical / Exploration

Ambient Listening Tapestry

A wall-mounted e-paper artwork that listens to a room and slowly evolves its abstract imagery to match its mood.

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Concept artwork for LiveNote Stick
Physical / Exploration

LiveNote Stick

A USB meeting-assistant device with its own tiny status display.

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Concept artwork for ESP32 Handheld Computer
Physical / Design development

ESP32 Handheld Computer

A portable ESP32-S3 handheld with GNSS, battery, USB-C and a custom PCB.

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Concept artwork for Resilient Mesh Network
Physical / Exploration

Resilient Mesh Network

A solar-powered LoRa mesh spanning elevated repeater sites, palm-sized relay pods and handheld terminals.

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Concept artwork for Filament Forge
Physical / Exploration

Filament Forge

A closed-loop system that turns PET bottles and failed prints back into usable filament.

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Concept artwork for Workshop Systems
Physical / Exploration

Workshop Systems

The studio's own fabrication library — enclosures, mounts and a hybrid CNC/laser/print workflow.

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Concept artwork for LAB AI Workshop
Physical / Exploration

LAB AI Workshop

A fabrication workshop wired for an ambient AI presence — ceiling mic array, status lighting and visual memory of every project on the bench.

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Concept artwork for TURF Arcade Cabinet
Physical / Exploration

TURF Arcade Cabinet

An arcade cabinet for a persistent territory-war game, backed by always-on Raspberry Pi nodes that keep the world running.

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Concept artwork for Wind-Turbine Nacelle Reuse
Physical / Exploration

Wind-Turbine Nacelle Reuse

Reusing retired wind-turbine nacelles as off-grid mesh nodes, maker pods or small inhabitable structures.

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Concept artwork for DIY Record-Cutting Lathe
Physical / Exploration

DIY Record-Cutting Lathe

A machine for cutting playable vinyl records from blanks, built from a platter, lead-screw carriage and cutting head.

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Concept artwork for SNAILS 103 Taonui Sign
Physical / Exploration

SNAILS 103 Taonui Sign

An illuminated sign that reads in full by day and glows down to just its initials at night.

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04 / Ambition, made inspectable

Every idea needs
a way into the world.

The project studies make the route visible. A proposed test is a promise to investigate—not a result already achieved.

01 / INTENT

A reason to exist.

The experience, problem or possibility that makes the project worth pursuing.

02 / DESIGN

A plausible mechanism.

The system architecture, physical parts and decisions that connect the idea to implementation.

03 / PROOF

A test that can fail.

A bounded experiment with measurable criteria, so progress means more than a convincing image.

04 / COMPLETION

A finished milestone.

A useful, demonstrable version with clear limits and an honest account of what remains.

05 / Build a connection

For people who see
what something could become.

Collaborators, makers and people with a difficult, interesting problem: let’s talk.