Independent invention / APX Build
One mind.
Many possible
futures.
I connect software, machines and human experiences—then work out how they can become real.
The invention notebookSoftware × matter × systemsA studio imagined / concept artwork
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.
Concept artworkRuapehu Live
Live observations, given a landscape.
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Concept artworkKOKU E-Paper Book
The digital book, reconsidered as an object.
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Concept artworkCourtVision
From statistical model to daily publication.
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Concept artworkAtlas E-Paper Chessboard
An ancient game in a quiet new form.
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Concept artworkResilient Mesh Network
A network designed around terrain and energy.
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Concept artworkShiftScript
A workflow idea developed into Workstep.
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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.
Find the connection.
Bring ideas from different fields together around a specific human experience or useful capability.
Work through the mechanism.
Explain the components, interfaces and trade-offs that could make the idea function.
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
CrapGPT.lol
A curated multi-model chat platform — pick the model, not the wrapper.
Explore the thinking ↗PRAETOR
NZ legal research engine drawing on four verified sources, built for practitioners who need citations they can trust.
Explore the thinking ↗CourtVision
NBA analytics and editorial site — Elo models, a daily brief, and a podcast, all generated and published autonomously.
Explore the thinking ↗Hormuz Monitor
A news monitor tracking Strait of Hormuz shipping realignment, with a daily cached brief and an animated map.
Explore the thinking ↗Ruapehu Live
A live 3D digital twin of Mt Ruapehu — real-time GeoNet, MetService and field-station feeds rendered in Three.js.
Explore the thinking ↗MAINLINE
A top-down US prison strategy RPG — resource pressure, politics and survival inside Calder Ridge.
Explore the thinking ↗Hark
A public-domain audiobook player with synthetic narration — the classics, read aloud on demand.
Explore the thinking ↗Southern Skies
A two-player jet shoot-em-up flying the length of New Zealand under a fictional drone occupation.
Explore the thinking ↗ORACLE
A Myst-like puzzle game exploring esoteric systems and forgotten mechanisms — the Age of the Wheel slice is playable.
Explore the thinking ↗Taxidermy Animatronics
ESP32-driven animatronic builds inside taxidermy mounts — servo-driven motion, camera eyes, mic and speaker.
Explore the thinking ↗Cabinet
A MAME arcade front end with AI-generated art and Palmerston North-themed homebrew mini-games, built for real cabinet hardware.
Explore the thinking ↗Claude of Duty
A browser FPS that generates its battlegrounds from real-world map data.
Explore the thinking ↗Echoes of the Glyph
A narrative browser RPG built around a dystopian sci-fi caste-system setting.
Explore the thinking ↗HallOS
A multi-tenant interactive TV OS for shared spaces.
Explore the thinking ↗The Hidden Crate
A boutique beat marketplace concept, built as a working Cloudflare Worker prototype.
Explore the thinking ↗LearnForge
An L&D SaaS concept using a physics-based curriculum library as its content spine.
Explore the thinking ↗Next Best Step
A cognitive assessment platform that generates interactive-fiction psychometric instruments.
Explore the thinking ↗NZ Money Flows
An interactive visualisation of New Zealand's international money flows.
Explore the thinking ↗OBE Podcast
An automated paranormal narrative podcast — synthetic voices, a full cast, self-hosted RSS.
Explore the thinking ↗OPEN SEO
An SEO analysis tool platform that only accepts real URLs, not bare domains.
Explore the thinking ↗ORACLE XI
A World Cup 2026 forecasting engine built on calibrated prediction models.
Explore the thinking ↗Palmy Rally
An HTML5 canvas arcade racer set in real Palmerston North map data, built for a local artspace cabinet.
Explore the thinking ↗Race for What's Left
A game project tracking country-level player stats in a race against depletion.
Explore the thinking ↗REPOYIELD
A weekly scanner ranking the top five GitHub repos by clone activity and ROI potential.
Explore the thinking ↗Substrate
A cognitive home OS running on a Raspberry Pi 4 with a supervised swarm of agents.
Explore the thinking ↗World Prediction Machine
An autonomous forecasting platform that crawls the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine for signal.
Explore the thinking ↗ShiftScript
An NZ compliance SaaS platform, shipped as the enterprise product Workstep.
Explore the thinking ↗Way of Leadership
A self-built Confucian leadership curriculum platform, live as its own brand.
Explore the thinking ↗SkySpar
A lightweight fixed-wing UAV using an old Android phone as its brain and ArduPilot for flight control.
Explore the thinking ↗Flix Micro-Quadcopter
An open-source ESP32 micro-drone with a mostly 3D-printed frame, investigated as a cheap first build.
Explore the thinking ↗ESP32 Rover Platform
A small wheeled robot for experimenting with sensors, cameras and mobility without building a full-sized robot.
Explore the thinking ↗Automated Miniature Table
A gaming table with a magnetic carriage underneath that physically moves miniatures on its own.
Explore the thinking ↗Atlas E-Paper Chessboard
A touch e-paper chess computer with Stockfish and Lichess support, evolving toward a furniture-grade smart games table.
Explore the thinking ↗KOKU E-Paper Book
A multi-page e-paper reader that behaves like a physical book instead of a single-screen tablet.
Explore the thinking ↗Solari AI Egg
A printed egg-shaped ambient AI object that rests in a weighted nest doubling as its charging dock.
Explore the thinking ↗Ambient Listening Tapestry
A wall-mounted e-paper artwork that listens to a room and slowly evolves its abstract imagery to match its mood.
Explore the thinking ↗LiveNote Stick
A USB meeting-assistant device with its own tiny status display.
Explore the thinking ↗ESP32 Handheld Computer
A portable ESP32-S3 handheld with GNSS, battery, USB-C and a custom PCB.
Explore the thinking ↗Resilient Mesh Network
A solar-powered LoRa mesh spanning elevated repeater sites, palm-sized relay pods and handheld terminals.
Explore the thinking ↗Filament Forge
A closed-loop system that turns PET bottles and failed prints back into usable filament.
Explore the thinking ↗Workshop Systems
The studio's own fabrication library — enclosures, mounts and a hybrid CNC/laser/print workflow.
Explore the thinking ↗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.
Explore the thinking ↗TURF Arcade Cabinet
An arcade cabinet for a persistent territory-war game, backed by always-on Raspberry Pi nodes that keep the world running.
Explore the thinking ↗Wind-Turbine Nacelle Reuse
Reusing retired wind-turbine nacelles as off-grid mesh nodes, maker pods or small inhabitable structures.
Explore the thinking ↗DIY Record-Cutting Lathe
A machine for cutting playable vinyl records from blanks, built from a platter, lead-screw carriage and cutting head.
Explore the thinking ↗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.
A reason to exist.
The experience, problem or possibility that makes the project worth pursuing.
A plausible mechanism.
The system architecture, physical parts and decisions that connect the idea to implementation.
A test that can fail.
A bounded experiment with measurable criteria, so progress means more than a convincing image.
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.
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