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## design engineering at school
-Nueva's I-Lab gave me access to serious fabrication tools. not every school has this, but makerspaces are increasingly common — and community makerspaces exist everywhere.
+my school's makerspace gave me access to serious fabrication tools. not every school has a professional-level shop, but makerspaces are increasingly common — and community makerspaces exist everywhere.
projects I built:
- **magnetic chess set** as a gift — custom woodwork + embedded magnets
-- **wolf toys for Oakland Zoo** — designed and fabricated toys for actual wolves
+- **wolf toys for a local zoo** — designed and fabricated toys for actual wolves
- **circuits + micro:bits + servos** — small electronics projects that built my foundation
- **Rube Goldberg machine** — the classic engineering exercise. teaches you to think about systems.
- **soap box derby racer** — full-scale vehicle design and fabrication
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## auditing CS140E
-I'm auditing Stanford's CS140E (Winter 2026) — an embedded operating systems course where you write OS components from scratch on a Raspberry Pi/ARM. you don't need to be enrolled at Stanford to learn this material. the course materials and assignments are often publicly available.
+I'm auditing CS140E (Winter 2026) — a university embedded OS course where you write OS components from scratch on a Raspberry Pi/ARM. you don't need to be enrolled to learn this material. the course materials and assignments are often publicly available.
writing your own bootloader, your own memory allocator, your own interrupt handler — this is the deepest possible understanding of how computers actually work. it's the opposite of "vibe coding" and it makes you a dramatically better engineer at every level.