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JUL 09, 2026

jiborelay: A Robot That Only Knew localhost

jiborelay is a lightweight Go tool designed to bypass Jibo's hardcoded firmware limitations by forwarding its local network traffic to external backends. By quietly routing local bytes to modern cloud APIs, it untethers the vintage robot's brain from its decade-old hardware and breathes new life into a beloved social robot.

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JUL 05, 2026

Jibo’s Independence Day: Unlocking a Social Robot

By reverse-engineering the social robot's APIs and utilizing community hardware exploits, I built a custom Go-based cloud replacement to revive a disabled Jibo after nine years on a shelf. Integrating Gemini for real-time conversation and tool-calling, this project successfully bridges legacy robotics with modern agentic AI.

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JUL 03, 2026

Frame by Frame: Lessons Building on Magenta RealTime 2

With Google DeepMind's Magenta RealTime 2, I built native SwiftUI and Rust players that generate continuous, real-time music locally on Apple Silicon. This project covers the engineering insights required to frame the 2.4B parameter transformer, and eliminate audio artifacts under hardware constraints.

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