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

Da Vinci preview

AI / Robotics

Da Vinci

A real-time Leonardo da Vinci that actually sees the guests in front of it. It reads their gaze and the distinctive things they're wearing, then decides, the way a good host would, who to talk to and what to open with.

Computer VisionOpen-Vocab DetectionGaze EstimationReal-TimeExplainable AI
Ballbot preview

Robotics

Ballbot

Most robots have no personality, so I'm building one that does. It's a self-balancing bot with expressive, character-driven behaviors that reacts to the people around it.

Jetson OrinROS2PIDPythonC++
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
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Joey Schnepel · Phoenix, AZ · 2026