Hardware Projects

Hardware research notes

Self-directed hardware experiments — some archived, some still exploratory. These pages document framing, prototypes, and honest outcomes without overclaiming.

Single-rider ducted-fan personal airbike on a dark hangar floor

Archived · retrospective

SCAR — AirBike

Retrospective on a single-rider ducted-fan personal eVTOL built on a large drone platform. Self-funded, never reached a safe flight margin.

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Exotic-propulsion research bench with a sealed test cavity and instrumentation

Exploratory · WIP

SCQ — Exotic Propulsion

SCQ-01 through SCQ-10: ten generations of exotic-thrust prototypes — waterjet-cut electrode stacks, HV lab campaigns, and honestly logged nulls.

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$Laser and plasma mining-and-sorting machine routing fractions into containers$

PoC v1 · planning

SCME — Mining & Sorting

A six-iteration PoC plan: klystron/HV vaporizes the top ore layer, EM fields sort the hot plasma into four weight classes, a spectrometer audits every container.

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