2026 / Project record
Wrapping Up
Wanting to write, wanting to express something in writing, and having something one wants to express in writing are three different things.
Projects
Tools, experiments, and records from the workbench.
2026 / Project record
Actual Use Is the Best Review
People walking down the street take on different roles depending on my level of interest and my own situation. Even when they are simply going to work or leisurely heading to a department store, they can become enviable people with clear...
2026 / Project record
Trying Firmware Without a Device?
After all the detours, I finally finished uploading even the code to GitHub. There were two more updates after that, I think, but those were only for incidental things like the design of the internal web page. They were not because there...
2026 / Project record
Even You, Gemini...
After working on the firmware project for a while, I came to understand quite a few things, even if not to the level of people who get paid to lecture about AI or use it all day. I also came to understand what people on the internet mean...
2026 / Project record
It Became a Usable Machine
I wrote this episode twice. I had missed something very simple. After finishing the piece, another topic came to mind, so I pressed Control and N to create a new document. A new file opened. After I finished that piece too and opened the...
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I Want to Make It Feel Like a Product
In truth, even by this point, I still did not have a concrete image of this firmware in my head. I had only been thinking, vaguely, “Let’s make this firmware turn the ZeroWriter into a machine that other people could actually use too.” I...
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Liberation
When I vaguely imagined coding with the help of AI, what I had in mind was something like an all-purpose tool. I would say,
2026 / Project record
The End of the Long Keyboard Layout Work
I actually do not think that what separates “intelligence” is knowledge or communication. I had thought that if something has intelligence, then communication would be possible and it would also be able to possess some degree of knowledg...
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Silver and Iron
Every product has something called a “user manual”, a tool meant to guide you along the way the maker originally intended the product to be used. But once I learn the basics, I tend to learn the rest by bumping into things myself, so man...
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A New Beginning, the Beginning of Collaboration
Gemini was actually already a presence I had naturally grown used to on mobile. This project itself began when I asked, “Hahaha, Gemini, should I try doing this once? Can you help me?” and Gemini replied, “Of course. I will do my best!” ...
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The Last Assignment with Gemini
Gemini had, in its own way, built the program quite meticulously. In a single C-language file, it had made the skeleton of a program that could write Korean, English, German, French, Turkish, and Montenegrin. As header files, there was l...
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Making Hangul Type
Before talking about the thought that I should make multilingual input a reality, it seems right to first tell the story of implementing Korean. That is because realizing that what had first looked impossible for me was only one gateway ...
2026 / Project record
First Tool, First Debugging
The first debugging was closer to practicing how to use the software than to debugging. Since I had never used Arduino itself before, everything was unfamiliar to me, starting with the software menus. I even had to set which hardware the...
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It Was Not the World of Light, but the Baptism of Light
Subtitle: Before I Could Write Korean on the ZeroWriter Ink