✳ The shelf Every toy the lab
Every toy the lab
has ever made.
Some escaped and live at their own *.lanvar.ai address. Some are still cooking. Some are retired with honour. All of them taught the lab something.
Escaped the lab Inkmind The interface is the stroke: draw a problem on an infinite board and the AI draws its answer back, by hand, live — no chat box, no text, just ink between you and the model. Escaped the lab Feynman The opposite of the caveman skill: a Claude skill that teaches like Feynman — the problem first, the naive fix failing, the idea earning its name, then the math worked with real numbers. Trained, not just written, with Microsoft SkillOpt. Escaped the lab Agentic SaaS Starter Turn the SaaS you already have into an agent platform — an open-source agent layer with plans, approvals, parallel runs, and evals that sits on top of your product instead of rewriting it. Did its thing Clever Cut A smart 3D trimmer: scan your head, paint zones with different guard lengths, and the blade adjusts itself in real time as you move it. BEng capstone Did its thing Scenery Point it at a React repo and it generates real product demo videos from your components — narrated, animated, and self-scored until they’re good. Escaped the lab Arty's Claude Newsletter Really an experiment in Claude routines and how you lay out a repo for an AI to work in. It just happens to email me an opinionated AI newsletter every morning. Did its thing NURO A wearable memory aid that records life as it happens and answers “who did I meet today?” with semantic search over your own conversations. 6th hackathon win Did its thing MouseGPT Decoding where a mouse is in a maze — from nothing but its neural activity. Machine learning as mind reading, 24 hours on the clock. 2nd place · PharmaHacks 2024 Did its thing Coal to Goal Not code — policy. A four-phase plan to move China’s Shanxi province off coal without wrecking the people who depend on it. Second place at Yale’s policy hackathon. 2nd place · Yale × Yale-NUS Global Policy Hackathon Did its thing Net-Worth Projector A financial-education app built for SunLife’s ConUHacks challenge: see your money’s trajectory, with inflation doing its worst in the projection. Escaped the lab Echo An accessible PDF reader that wraps every single word in its own element — so it can read aloud, highlight, and track your focus word by word. Did its thing Flashify Upload your lecture notes as a PDF, get a studyable flashcard deck back in minutes. Built solo in a weekend — then it won the McGill Engine pitch competition. 1st place · McGill Engine Centre pitch competition Did its thing Stem Cell Classifier A classification model for stem cells that took first place at PharmaHacks — at the same fair that ignited the whole ML obsession a year earlier. 1st place · PharmaHacks Did its thing Microbiome Classifier Reading disease out of gut bacteria: a neural network over 1,094 microbial abundance features, with SMOTE fixing a brutally imbalanced dataset. Did its thing GymPose Record any exercise and an LSTM names it from the way your body moves through time — then hands you the pros, cons, alternatives, and tutorials. People's Choice · MaisHacks 2022 Did its thing PDF Image Locator Find where an image lives inside a textbook PDF — by matching pixel matrices directly, because OCR kept getting it wrong. Best Educational Hack · McHacks 9 Retired toy LIA An AI companion for people with severe memory loss — running on a neural network built from scratch, back before you could just call an API. Best Health Hack · NewHacks 2021 Did its thing Green Switch The origin story: a smart lighting system on a hand-built PCB that dims a room by how much daylight is already in it. Built as a teenager. Good enough for ISEF. ISEF 2018 finalist · Embedded Systems
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