DC Mini Logs

I keep this logbook for my own sanity. I've left New York in pursuit of building a video camera with nothing but a background in engineering, loving friends, and conviction that I need what I'm building.

Multiple hypotheses are being tested here:

• I can build a video camera
• Building in public is a good idea
• The meta-documentary of documenting its development with itself is a good format
• Going to Taiwan and Shenzhen by myself is a good way to build and test the camera
• Being transparent about what I know (not much) and don't know (most things) is a good idea.

I can't say with confidence how many of these hold true nor that the list is exhaustive, but experimenting will yield something interesting don't you think?

The Project

I'm building a video camera in public. I moved to Taiwan (and soon Shenzhen) to do it without knowing a single person here. I'm documenting the entire process and being honest about not knowing what I'm doing. I got a grant from Muze Fund to document it.

I speak Mandarin fluently but I have a hard time reading it. I might as well be in the second grade but it's okay. Through Pleco, talking to locals, getting a 小红书 addiction, I might be able to get by.

Until I have a working camera that I can use, I'm using the Meta Raybans. I have my qualms with them, namely that I LOOK UGLY IN THEM but they get the job done. The frames are strapped to my face as much as possible.

About Me

I was recently founding engineer at Kino AI, am a filmmaker, photographer, and visual artist. I love learning new pieces of software. Not the web stuff, like densely packed desktop software requiring several 3 hour YouTube videos to understand. I'm fighting every urge to give this website better styling. I have a longstanding tendency to undervalue myself, so I decided to stop doing that and give something ambitious a try. Here I am.

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