Ongoing / Hardware & software
Luum.io
Power, lighting, and controls. Hardware and software built together.
I can’t not make things.
Dad of 3. Sailor. Pilot. Builder of things.
Living in the Gulf Islands, BC.
Projects & experiments
18 projects shown
AI / macOS
Luumi
A tiny animated Mac cat that can chat, remember context, and help with Notes, Calendar, and Music when asked.
3D printing / Learning
Letters & Marbles
3D-printable marble runs that follow the strokes of handwritten letters.
AI / Software
Articulation Dojo
A speaking-practice app with prompts, drills, and AI coaching on clarity.
Podcast / AI & humanity
Final Draft
Sebastien and Eric thinking out loud about AI, humanity, and the companies they can't seem to stop starting.
Sailing / IoT
Bon Vivant IoT
Live DC power monitoring for Bon Vivant, bringing the boat’s battery and charging systems into one dashboard.
Ongoing / Bon Vivant
The boat
Bon Vivant. A refit, a logbook, and plenty of systems to work on.
Software / Poetry
Magic Words
A poetry playground where kids write a poem and watch the words come alive.
Software / Local food
Free Rangers
A local food-shop app for browsing produce, building a basket, and repeating last week's order.
Software / Sailing
Read the Shift
An interactive sailing visualization for making sense of wind shifts.
3D printing / Model ship
Salt Wind
A 3D-printed model ship, from the hull and rigging to the tiny dinghies.
3D printing / Repair
Grater repair
A replacement handle for my wife's grandmother's grater. Repairing something worth keeping.
Software / Sailing
Hotfoot Sailing
A home for the Hotfoot fleet: boats, photographs, race reports, and events.
AI / Prototype
Seb x Seb
An experimental interview studio where an AI voice clone interviews me.
Mathematics / Visualization
Fibonacci hexagrams
Visual experiments with Fibonacci sequences, nested hexagrams, and patterns in modular arithmetic.
3D printing / Prototype
BKR straw lid
A 3D-printed straw lid, shaped around an existing bottle's threads and straw.
Software / Electrical
Schematic Maker
A boat electrical schematic tool with automatic layout and an AI assistant.
Learning / AI
Learning Maze
An interactive maze for exploring how reinforcement learning changes the odds, and how training differs from inference.
Latest thought
More thoughtsWriting helped build civilization. But was it GOOD writing, or just being able to store ideas outside our heads? We needed nonvolatile memory, not perfect prose. Maybe AI will force schools to focus more on teaching us to think, and less on how well we write it down.
Final Draft episode 006 · Episode published · 34:10; 35:59 · Paraphrase.
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Final Draft episode 006 · Episode published · 34:10; 35:59 · Paraphrase.
Also on a personal vendetta to make SaaS companies pay for what they’ve done to the world. Mostly by building the thing myself.