01 Reconstructing ROME locked August 29, 2026 how we converged on ROME, from a new direction 02 Playing with VPD locked August 29, 2026 what I discovered when playing with VPD 03 VPD factual recall Summer 2026 what the CI mask keeps and what it loses in OPT-125m 04 What a Size Ladder Can Identify locked August 29, 2026 why the scaling exponents optimizer benchmarks fit measure the experimental design, not the optimizer 05 TartanIMU Oct 2025 – May 2026 Inertial odometry: a trajectory estimated from IMU alone, with a live demo on Hugging Face.

06 autodidact Fall 2026 reverse-mode autodiff engine and nn library from scratch in numpy 07 tinydecode Fall 2026 small llama-style inference runtime, tuned for single-stream latency

08 Robot Jousting Fall 2026 Two real robot arms with 3D-printed swords fence each other on stepper rails while a crowd plays from their phones. 09 Robot Dog Summer 2026 A printed quadruped, from a single leg test to dancing on all fours. 10 Open Duck Mini Summer 2025 An open-source biped built from bare servos up: soldered, wired, and driven until it walked and picked itself up off the floor. 11 Pi Day Pie Robot Spring 2026 A borrowed microwave, a printed arm, and a great deal of orange tape. 12 Hack 100 Gantry Spring 2026 Built at Hack 100 — partly self-designed CAD through to the first limit-switch test. 13 Dice Arms Summer 2025 A dice mosaic generated from the Duck render — each cell is one die, pip count tracking local tone.