Tinkerly

The hard part

Keeping those views connected makes it easier to understand what a change affects and what to test next.

• Kept circuits, printed geometry, wiring, and firmware tied to one editable design graph, with deterministic checks for power, voltage, and pin allocation.
• Compiled firmware for supported Arduino and ESP32 targets, with an AVR twin that executes compiled code against electrical and motion models.
• Reconstructed captured views with COLMAP and Brush into explorable Gaussian-splat scenes, with recorded camera viewpoints and a persistent scan library.
• Added vision-assisted object detection across camera, photo, and scan views, refining bounds against image pixels and letting users review part identities and 3D regions.
• Connected confirmed parts and measured workspace alignment to step-by-step assembly rehearsal, including pickup paths and captured-object motion.
• Built a dark interface with an animated ASCII-art home page, interactive machine and circuit views, dimensioned blueprints, and printable manufacturing geometry.
• Used Backboard to retain project-scoped debugging context across sessions, marking memories from older design revisions as stale.

Won the Backboard track and reached the semifinals at Hack the North 2026 with a workbench spanning design, simulation, blueprints, fabrication, and guided assembly.