Monday, June 29, 2026

Summer of CDL

Well summer is here and we're busy at the lab. We've got several projects in the hopper. We're still endeavoring to clean up the Makerspace. This is an on going effort. Despite the drudgery we've manage to squeeze in more into our tiny space and make the place more usable.

Group projects

  • We've got an AI class in the works. We're working on doing Agentics Flows (loops).
  • We've got the WaveRider, which is a mesh of Meshtastic, nRF52840, BME280 and IR distance sensor. The data will be sent and processed by a local LLM that we're also working on.
  • We've added a few Meshtastic nodes and hope to be adding a Meshcore node soon.
  • We're putting together an Asterisk PBX with FreePBX.
  • We're working on a few solar projects including a project to light the street in front of the Makerspace.

Of course this is in addition to all of our individual projects that the members are working on.

More on the AI class

I'm not loving the AI title as this is more specific to using the LLM. In a simplified manner there are 5 tiers of LLM usage:

  1. AI as a reference
  2. AI for routines, functions or methods
  3. AI for scripts or complete programs
  4. AI for projects, a code assistant
  5. AI as an Agent (Agentic Flow or loops)

I'll cover these in more detail in a later blog post but our class will be covering mostly the last two.

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Summer of CDL

Well summer is here and we're busy at the lab. We've got several projects in the hopper. We're still endeavoring to cl...