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Projects

OpenGait — Open-Source FES Walking System

Oct 19, 2025

An open-source closed-loop functional electrical stimulation system designed to restore walking capability for people with spinal cord injury, targeting under $2,000 in hardware costs.

Blog Posts

The Paralyzed Programmer: What Spinal Cord Injury Taught Me About Debugging

Nov 13, 2025• 8 min read

A spinal cord injury is a permanent network partition. My paralysis taught me lessons about circuit breakers, cascading failures, and autonomous systems that changed how I design software.

Teaching Myself to Walk: On Building External Control Systems for a Partitioned Network

Oct 18, 2025• 11 min read

After two years in a wheelchair, I'm designing an open-source FES walking system. The project has taught me more about latency, prediction, and graceful degradation than any distributed system I've built professionally.

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