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SYSTEMS · CSEP – OCT 2026
FlameoShell
How does a terminal actually run your commands? I wrote a Unix-like shell in C from fork() up to find out — then built a browser version so anyone can try it without a terminal.
Process creation with fork/execve, two-stage pipes and I/O redirection
Background/foreground job control and Ctrl+C / Ctrl+Z handling with sigaction
JS simulation with a virtual filesystem and process/job state
Riders had no easy way to report broken elevators or unsafe stations. We built a reporting site plus an inspector triage dashboard — and placed 2nd.
JS
HTML/CSS
Dashboard
Competition build
GYRO-Z → STEERING ANGLE · LIVE
EMBEDDEDJUN – JUL 2026
IMU-Driven 3D Wheel
An STM32 board streams motion data and a web page spins a custom 3D wheel in real time as you move it.
STM32
MPU-6050
C
HTML
Hardware · demo video soon
Exhaustive AC search83 min
My GNN surrogate48 s
103× faster
AI / ML · RESEARCHJAN – AUG 2026
IEEE 33-Bus Grid Dashboard
Finding the lowest-loss layout for a power grid by brute force is too slow for operators. My model finds near-optimal layouts in seconds, and an LLM-agent dashboard explains them.
Graph-Transformer screens 50,751 candidate topologies in one pass — 83 min to 48 s (103×)
Validated against pandapower across 16 operating points
Live-chart frontend + FastAPI/Node.js REST API, state in SQLite, results as JSONL
GNN
FastAPI
Node.js
LLM Agents
Read the paper ↗Research code (private) · walkthrough on request
Omakase?YesNoMaybe
ANDROIDSEP 2026
Omakase or Not?
Ends the "where should we eat?" stalemate with a quick, probability-based Android game with three randomized outcomes.