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Projects

A mix of production systems, research prototypes, and personal builds. Everything ships or it teaches.

Ballbot preview

Robotics

Ballbot

Robots don't have personality. So I'm building one that does — a self-balancing bot with Disney-inspired character behaviors that reacts to the people around it.

Jetson OrinROS2PIDPythonC++
Defect Detection preview

AI / ML

Defect Detection

TSMC was classifying wafer defects by hand. I built a CNN pipeline that cut manual inspection time by 60% across 12 defect categories.

PyTorchCNNOpenCVPythonAWS
Echelon Point preview

Platform

Echelon Point

Real estate brokerages were drowning in manual lead work. I built a SaaS platform with AI agents that automate qualification, matching, and outreach.

Next.jsAWSAI AgentsPostgreSQLTypeScript
RAG Pipeline preview

AI / ML

RAG Pipeline

Engineers needed answers from internal docs, but the network was air-gapped. No cloud, no APIs. I built a fully local RAG system that teams adopted on their own.

LangChainChromaDBPythonDockerTransformers
PixelBrix preview

Platform

PixelBrix

Wanted to turn any photo into a buildable brick mosaic. Built an app that maps pixels to real brick colors and generates step-by-step build instructions.

ReactCanvas APITypeScriptAlgorithmsTailwind
Multimodal Perception preview

Robotics

Multimodal Perception

Robots see frames, hear waveforms, and feel balance — but never all at once. I'm building a tokenization scheme that fuses all three fast enough to run on edge hardware.

TransformersROS2PythonCUDAEdge AI
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Joey Schnepel — Phoenix, AZ — 2026