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Projects I'm Actively Building

You might have attended one of my talks, seen me demo at a booth, or copped a rant about whatever I'm experimenting with at the time. If you've spoken to me more than once, you might think I work on many random different things and that I'm incoherent. You're not wrong — and that summarises me pretty accurately.

For the past couple of years, as I've learned to wield AI, I've used it to experiment and build across Cloud and apps — and to ramp up fast in domains I had little experience in: IoT, embedded systems, AI and robotics.

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Featured Work

8 ACTIVE MODULES
MODULE STR-08● BUILDING
Strands Agents Series

Strands Agents Series

A series of slide decks covering Strands Agents, an open-source SDK for building and running AI agents, from the agent loop, tools and model providers to multi-agent patterns, voice, evals and deployment, for talks at the AWS User Group Wellington.

Strands AgentsAmazon BedrockAWS User GroupMarp
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Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Series

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Series

A series of slide decks covering each feature of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, from Runtime, Memory and Gateway to Identity, Policy and Evaluations, for talks at the AWS User Group Wellington.

AgentCoreAmazon BedrockAWS User GroupMarp
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Reachy Mini × Strands Agent on Jetson Thor

Reachy Mini × Strands Agent on Jetson Thor

A Pollen Robotics Reachy Mini Lite desk robot driven by an on-device Strands Agent on NVIDIA Jetson Thor — local Nemotron reasoning and Cosmos Reason 2 vision, $0 and offline at idle, with optional AWS IoT Core, S3 and data-lake paths.

Reachy MiniStrands AgentJetson ThorCosmos ReasonAWS IoT
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Voice to Sign Language

Voice to Sign Language

Real-time voice-to-sign-language translation using Amazon Nova 2 Sonic, AWS IoT Core, Strands Agents on NVIDIA Jetson, and a Pollen Robotics Amazing Hand.

Nova 2 SonicStrandsJetsonASL
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IoT Firmware & Device Management

IoT Firmware & Device Management

Scalable IoT firmware and device management with Over-The-Air updates using AWS IoT for Seeed Studio ESP32 devices.

AWS IoT JobsOTAESP32AWS CDKArduino
MODULE ROB-02● BUILDING
Robotics

Robotics

Cloud-connected robotics including Sphero RVR and Hugging Face LeRobot SO-101 arms controlled via AWS IoT Core.

Sphero RVRLeRobotAWS IoTESP32MicroPython
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FeedMyFurBabies

FeedMyFurBabies

Smart IoT cat feeder with AWS IoT Core, ESP32, event sourcing and real-time monitoring. Aiming for an off-grid AIoT cat house.

AWS IoTESP32TimestreamEventBridge
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Iron Man Suit with AWS IoT

Iron Man Suit with AWS IoT

3D printed Iron Man helmet and suit components integrated with AWS IoT Core and ESP32 microcontrollers.

3D PrintingAWS IoTESP32C3XIAO