Hear
Voice or type
Push-to-talk records a clean turn. Groq Whisper transcribes it. Typing enters the same conversation path.
ACE
Side projects, serious curiosity
Curiosity is part of the job. These are the projects I build when an idea is worth following far enough to learn something, make something, or make myself laugh.
Live system / running on this page
ACE MAKES THE SITE A CONVERSATION.
ACE turns a static portfolio into a guided conversation without surrendering factual control. The stack joins retrieval, short-term context, streaming speech, and a custom WebGL performance system in one real-time loop.
VisitorSpeech + textRAG + guardrailsReasoningVoice + face
Know
Evidence before eloquence
A curated portfolio RAG retrieves reviewed facts, client stories, project records, claims, and answer guardrails before ACE responds.
Think
Fast reasoning
DeepSeek V4 Flash runs through OpenRouter, with a Groq fallback. Fixed answers handle the questions that should never drift.
Speak
Streaming voice
Fish Audio streams the reply as it is produced. Sentence-level performance cues shape pace and intonation instead of bolting on a generic voice at the end.
Perform
One response, two performances
The audio waveform drives mouth movement while expression cues animate the eyes, brows, cheeks, and posture through the same live response.
Remember
Context without surveillance
ACE knows the current page, open project, last presentation, and recent turns inside this tab. Conversation and browsing history are not stored.
THE BUILDNext.js 16React 19TypeScriptThree.js + WebGLGroq WhisperOpenRouterDeepSeek V4 FlashFish Audio S2.1 ProVercel
Built beyond the brief
THE REST OF THE LAB.
Physics, games, and fiction exercise different muscles, but the operating habit is the same: get curious, learn the machinery, make the idea tangible, and keep going until it works.
Physics research / technical communication
Donkey on the Edge
From F = ma to quantum gravity.An end-to-end physics course built from first principles, spanning thirty-eight documents from classical mechanics to quantum gravity. The work culminated in a research paper with original equations exploring how computational complexity changes the observer effect in quantum physics, with AI-assisted author, editor, and adversarial-review loops testing every step.Enter the research site
Browser game / interactive experiment
SULU Invaders
A side quest with lasers.A neon arcade shooter built into a custom retro-futurist console. Canvas rendering, keyboard, pointer and touch controls, ship upgrades, shields, enemies, sound effects, and selectable soundtracks turn a portfolio detour into an actual playable thing.Play SULU Invaders
Comedy novel / writing sample