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Experiments

What I build when nobody asked me to. Robots, simulations, 3D prints, and whatever I got curious about this week.

An iPhone Duo model in exploded view, with its panels, boards, batteries and shell floating apart in layers
Featured · Interactive teardown

iPhone Duo teardown

I rebuilt Apple's first folding iPhone from code so you can take it apart in repair order. Drag it around, scrub through the steps, and tap any part to see where the numbers came from.

32
parts
67
screws
45
chips
Take it apart Based on iFixit's published teardown, restated in my own words. Not affiliated with Apple or iFixit.
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Builds

Each one has a build log or free files.

Project Ogre, an orange mecanum-wheel robot with a lidar on top
01 · Robotics

Project Ogre

A mecanum-drive robot on a Jetson Orin Nano. Omnidirectional drive, RPLIDAR, RealSense depth, and autonomous navigation with SLAM and Nav2. Trained in Isaac Lab, documented in five parts.

  • ROS 2
  • Jetson Orin
  • SLAM
  • Nav2
  • Isaac Lab
Two SO-ARM 101 robot arms, one purple and one black
02 · Simulation

SO-ARM 101 digital twin

A leader arm drives a 6-axis arm in Isaac Sim in real time.

  • Isaac Sim
  • LeRobot
  • ROS 2
An orange JetBot with a Jetson Orin Nano on top
03 · Robotics

JetBot Orin

The classic NVIDIA JetBot, rebuilt for the Jetson Orin Nano with a custom chassis.

  • Jetson Orin
  • OpenCV
3D-printed leaf armor made of interlocking gray scales
04 · 3D printing

Elven Leaf Armor & other prints

Armor, tools, and decorative pieces, free to download on MakerWorld. The leaf armor alone has passed 9,200 downloads.

  • STL
  • MakerWorld