Projects
Each entry is a case study built around evidence — architecture, measurements, and honest limitations. Slots reserved for future work are labeled as placeholders rather than dressed up as finished projects.
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Vision-Language Navigation on a Booster K1 Humanoid
An 8B vision-language-action model, a three-machine inference relay, and a humanoid that walks toward natural-language goals.
VLA · navigation · humanoid
Robotic Inspection of Photovoltaic Hotspots
Two industrial robots revived from a lab closet, a YOLOv8 model trained on 1,682 thermal images, and mAP@0.5 = 0.985 on hotspot detection.
computer vision · thermal inspection · YOLOv8
Autonomous Hexapod — NASA Colorado Robotics Challenge
An 18-DoF walker with emergent Kuramoto-CPG gaits and IMU heading-hold autonomy — competed on the dunes, then learned to dance.
hexapod · autonomy · firmware
Reinforcement-Learned Locomotion & Evaluation in Isaac Sim
PPO locomotion policies and benchmark-style evaluation in Isaac Sim / Isaac Lab, with sim-to-real transfer as the point, not an afterthought.
reinforcement learning · locomotion · simulation
A Three-Machine Relay for Real-Time Robot Inference
GPU workstation, relay/control node, and robot — turned into one control loop with defensible interfaces.
distributed systems · control loop · robotics middleware
KDUR Community Radio Data Platform
A deployed data platform for Fort Lewis College's radio station — 60+ daily users — with an applied-AI research layer for search and royalty integrity.
product · deployed software · NLP
Embedded, FPGA & Board-Level Systems
Board-level engineering — Verilog on the Basys 3, bare-metal ATmega2560 work, a custom PCB with production Gerbers, and CMOS VLSI design.
embedded · FPGA · PCB
Vision-Language Project — Slot Reserved
A reserved slot for a self-contained multimodal project: model choice, task definition, interface, and honest evaluation.
vision-language · multimodal · evaluation
Technical Investigation — Slot Reserved
A reserved slot for a research-style investigation: one question, a method, an evaluation, and a synthesis with limitations.
investigation · evaluation · writeup