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Field Notes

Focused stories from physical, digital, and hybrid systems — each one with a result, real measurements, the tools that did the work, and the mistakes we'd rather you make on paper instead of granite.

A large granite boulder beside a compact excavator in the Sierra Nevada
Field Note 001 Physical Systems July 2026

Splitting the Boulder

A one-ton mini excavator could move half of it — but not the whole thing. So we traded brute force for geometry, drilled five deep holes along the stone's natural fracture, and let expansive grout work the night shift.

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In the Pipeline Field Note 002 — moving the two halves. Plus build logs from the software studio, long-term tool reviews, and experiments where CAD, sensors, and AI meet dirt and steel. New notes land as projects finish, not on a content calendar.