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AIY Voice Kit — Final Build Report

Bought in 2017, assembled in 2026 — reviving an archived Google kit, patching a real library break along the way.

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AIY Vision Kit — Final Build Report

Reviving a 9-year-old kit: a dead original camera, a second defective replacement, and a background service quietly hogging the working one.

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Azure vs. Open Source: Four Pipelines, One Verdict

DP-900 training and beyond — two ETL projects, each built twice, once on Azure and once entirely open-source and local. Includes the Podcast Studio detour from the same training.

💻 Coding

Liane's Library: A Course Assignment, Taken Further

Liane's Library: From Minimum Viable to Fully Designed. A precursor to the more comprehensive project: Alloy Lab Database.

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Physics First, Verification Always

A working position on where AI actually belongs in real scientific work — with one small experiment as a case study, not the whole argument.