“Breathing new life into old tech”
I build offline-first AI systems, retro-modern hardware, and practical restorations that stay grounded in real tools, real constraints, and real obtainable materials.
This site follows Huey, the Monkey-Head-Project, and the lab work around them — the builds, the writeups, the experiments, and the longer thread of trying to make serious systems from parts and ideas that can actually be reached.
Huey is a locally operated, physically embodied AI system: local cognition, hardware, sensing, control, memory, governance, and operator interfaces are being built as one evolving machine rather than as a chatbot bolted onto a robot.
Huey V4 is the active physical build. It is being assembled around a rolling salvaged audio base and modified Thermaltake Mozart compute midsection, with the rebuilt hybrid WowWee head still to be mounted. The image here shows earlier proof-body lineage, not the completed V4 machine.
The Monkey-Head-Project is the umbrella term for the full build history around Huey: hardware, software, documentation, experiments, continuity, and the longer thesis behind them.
The name is literal. The monkey head never stopped mattering. It is the symbolic and physical thread that kept the body plan, the identity, and the project lineage tied together as the architecture changed.
The cleaner cabinet path that follows the prototype, with a more deliberate finish and presentation.
The prototype virtual pinball cabinet: fast, functional, and built to prove the cabinet and display approach.
A backwards-compatible PlayStation build aimed at solving the compatibility gap Sony never fully closed.
Four growing years, shown in order. Explore the photo series.