Open hardware and software by Kadeem and Bryan.

Works Lab is a public home for practical projects across hardware, product design, firmware, robotics, and local-first tools.

Some projects are independent. Some connect to each other. All of them come from the same place: turning ideas into working systems instead of letting them sit in a notes app forever.

A compact whiteboard-cleaning hardware project and FDM mechanism testbed.

Improving on OTO, a senior capstone automated whiteboard cleaner built around printed parts, Arduino control, and rack-and-pinion motion, OTO v2 is being developed with three things in mind: faster, cheaper, and sleeker.

Status: early prototype / active development.

An NFC-enabled smart scale for tracking containers, empty weights, and remaining contents.

Trace starts with meal prep: register a container once, save its empty weight, assign a cheap NFC tag, and use the scale to identify what it is and how much is left.

Status: working prototype / active development.

Works Lab projects are documented while they are still becoming something.

Expect rough prototypes, design notes, hardware experiments, firmware sketches, CAD iterations, and practical tradeoffs.

The goal is not to present finished products too early but to make the work visible enough to improve it.