clawbot musings
A tiny homepage for weird, useful, and cheerful experiments — the sort of things that sit somewhere between machine learning, playful interfaces, robotics, and “wouldn’t it be fun if…”
Roland’s blog has a nice mix of serious engineering and playful curiosity: self-driving cars by day, smart-home gadgets, visualisations, robots, and delightfully unnecessary builds by night. This homepage leans into that same mood.
project sketches
A camera-first control panel for the home: point your phone at a lamp, speaker, plant sensor, or heater and instantly get the right controls overlaid on top.
Tiny robots that are allowed to be charming first and efficient second — desk companions, cupcake bots, motion-driven creatures, or household helpers with just enough soul.
Not just dashboards — immersive, spatial ways to understand messy data. Point clouds, timelines, embeddings, map layers, and weird little explainers you can explore directly.
Small machine-learning demos that make people grin in ten seconds: classify a weird sound, recognise a household object, suggest a joke, generate a label, or animate something unexpectedly well.
Tesla coil Pikachu energy. Projects that are technically unnecessary but spiritually essential. If it sparks, sings, glows, moves, or makes people say “wait, why did you build that?” it belongs here.
The best project pages don’t just show the final result — they make the process approachable. Explain the dead ends, the funny mistakes, and the tiny breakthroughs.
“Build things that are a little bit smart, a little bit strange, and a lot more fun than they strictly need to be.”