§ 01 / WRITING
Field notes.
Technical writing, research notes, and build logs from the lab and the field.
2026
2026.04.10
Why I moved off Isaac Lab for sim-to-real.
A field note on simulator fidelity, iteration speed, and where tooling friction started to outweigh convenience.
2026.03.22
Notes on GR00T N1.6 fine-tuning on Blackwell.
A working log on dataset shaping, training bottlenecks, and what changed once the hardware constraints eased.
2026.02.14
Building HOWL, a voice agent for the G1.
What it took to make a voice interface feel like a tool for robotics work rather than a demo layered on top.
2024
2024.06.12
A Node.js Wrapper for the Gemini API.
Building a clean abstraction over Google's Gemini API before the official SDK existed.
2024.03.08
Building a Nepali Text-to-Speech API.
Wrapping Google Cloud TTS and a custom Nepali voice model into a simple REST API for production use.
2024.01.15
Taking IELTS in Nepal: A Practical Guide.
Everything I wish someone had told me before booking the test at British Council Kathmandu.
2023
2023.10.05
Thinger.io for Small IoT Projects.
Using Thinger.io's open-source platform to build a soil moisture dashboard for a rooftop garden — without writing a backend.
2023.07.20
Building an AI Plotter Bot.
Turning a CNC plotter into a GPT-4-powered drawing machine that turns text prompts into SVG line art.