#projects

55 items tagged projects.

• SIMTIME — A long design document for a simulation-time system. Nearly 20,000 words, left as written.
• Elevator Pitch — Building a robot hotel in 90 days: several robot types, an elevator driven over a reverse-engineered protocol, and guest requests by SMS.
• Burning Man 2011 — Wore the Lightsuit: 300 addressable LEDs, an Arduino, and a lot of sewing.
• Notes on Pathfinder
• Citybot
• Recent work — What I am building now, and the people I build with.
• Digital Twins Wiki — A civic guide to models and simulations of places, on a wiki database of tools, data, practice and worked cases.
• DiveSight — Dive planning from ocean science: forecasts of visibility, marine life and conditions for 28,000 dive sites. Yaniv Stopnitzky's venture; I wrote the first pass.
• Lita hotel simulation — A hotel as a living simulation: guests, staff, robots and lifts across three floors. Pick an event, a spill or a busy moment, and follow the response. For Lita Hotels.
• Water Atlas — California's water made legible from open data: rivers, gauges, reservoirs, rights and drought.
• Who Drinks the River? — The Colorado River piece from the Futures Desk.
• Cortes Island — A living portrait of Cortes Island.
• Salt Spring Island — A living portrait of Salt Spring Island, a generalized fork of the Cortes one, built during DWeb Camp 2026.
• ontology.monster — The news read nightly into things, kinds and parts, on a map over time.
• Salt Spring ontology — A knowledge graph read from island news.
• The Strait of Hormuz — Futures Desk piece two: the Strait of Hormuz closure and world food.
• Futures Desk — Solution-agnostic pieces of computational journalism.
• Bay Area twin — A luminous, layered portrait of San Francisco Bay in Three.js: earth and seabed, natural forces, living systems, and the built world. Recent, and fun.
• Orbital Foundation — The implementation side: the primer, the late-binding event bus, filespace, streams, a server shim, the declarative volume renderer and orbital-sim.
• attest.monster — Attestations and trust scoring: passkey identity and one public read endpoint.
• matchmaker.monster — Public asks and offers, jobs first, with an LLM working each one.
• Sound Crystals — A WebXR sound-crystal field.
• Dad's Farm — A playable farm game. Small and fun.
• EcoPermit — AI-assisted environmental permitting: draw a site and screen it. An Into the Blue product.
• Reefstora — Coral reef restoration support. An Into the Blue product.
• Into the Blue — My company. Living models for the places we share; EcoPermit and Reefstora are its products.
• Heckler — Adversarial stylometric analysis of public prose.
• Makerlab — A studio of humans making strange, beautiful, useful things. Co-founded.
• Future-Of — A conference series co-founded and run with Amber Case.
• ARDevCamp — An unconference for augmented reality developers. Co-founded.
• WhereCamp — The geo unconference. Co-founded; now defunct.
• ARE2012 — Seeing Value with Augmented Reality — An earlier Augmented World Expo talk, given while at Dekko, on where the value is in augmented reality.
• Game credits — Credited game work, catalogued by MobyGames.
• Projects — Things built over the years: 3D and visual communication, geo-place apps, crypto experiments, and the organizing tools underneath. Some are live, some are history.
• Orbital Foundation — A late-binding, data-driven toolchain: an event bus, declarative 3D, and a manifest pattern where a whole app is a list of files.
• Zero Theorem — A 3D visual communication and performance system: puppetry and real-time worlds.
• Thingster — An early geo-place app for annotating the world and sharing places.
• Divesight — Tools for seeing underwater: logging, identifying, and remembering what the reef showed you.
• Digital Puppets — Embodied virtual agents with visemes and gestures.
• Lightsuit — Wearable LED fashion, hand-built for Burning Man 2011: 300 addressable lights, an Arduino, and a lot of sewing.
• Blox — Tell stories in 3D by editing an ordinary text file: objects, relationships, and what they do over time, played back as an interactive 3D experience.
• ARPersist — Persistent AR in the browser, using ARKit to hold centimetre-accurate anchors across sessions and devices.
• ATerrain — A 3D geographic rendering component for A-Frame, built on Cesium data.
• Makerlab — Design & fabrication. I co-founded it.
• Future-Of Conference — A conference series I co-founded and ran with Amber Case, exploring the future at human scale: micropayments (2020), the browser (2021), water (2022).
• Videos — Clips from the YouTube channel and talks recorded by others: experiments, trails, talks and family footage. Each page here is a summary; the video plays on YouTube.
• LLM Embodied Puppet — In-Browser — An embodied puppet driven by an in-browser LLM and in-browser speech.
• LLM-Driven Puppet — Conversation Test — A modelling puppet engaging in conversation.
• Embodied Agent Information Ambassador — An early test of an embodied agent as a guide.
• Hubs + ATerrain + Stellar — Playing with three systems at once.
• Example of Ground Detection — AR ground-plane detection.
• ARPersist — Single Player — A quick example of ARPersist in single-player mode.
• ARPersist — Detailed Walkthrough — A fuller walkthrough, January 2019.
• Oakland Fence — Animation Sequences — Testing animation sequences for the Oakland Fence project.
• Luminate 0.3 — Preview — An early preview of Luminate.