Hardware
01Open hardware and embedded systems. Electronics, wireless devices, and sensor networks, from a schematic through to something that ships. Comfortable at the point where the firmware, the radio, and the enclosure all have to agree.
Babilim Light Industries is a small consultancy run from a converted Methodist chapel in Devon, and is in the business of making things work and gluing things together. Often those things are fragile, or legacy, or an inherited mess, because those are the most interesting problems.
Software
02The code around the hardware: firmware, data pipelines, and the interfaces that connect a device to whatever comes next. Also the unglamorous business of moving a system off a platform it has outgrown, and the documentation without which none of it is usable.
Machine learning
03I have benchmarked machine-learning accelerator hardware and built autonomous telescope networks. Here AI is a tool, not the product. Most of the value is in evaluation, in the error bars, and in knowing which part of the hype cycle to ignore.
Currently
Vera is a statically typed, purely functional language designed for code written by large language models. It removes variable names from the syntax altogether, on the argument that a whole class of model errors is really a naming problem.
Early, openly experimental, and a personal side project rather than a client one.