BEYOND
CODE
Documenting the physical and digital engineering works of Lidor Shimoni. From 95mm 16-DOF micro-robotics and 35kV X-ray computed tomography scanners to subatomic cloud chambers, 1200A magnetics, reverse engineering agents, and scalable 3D production factories.
SPOTLIGHT_SYSTEMS
TINY TITAN
Ultra-miniature 95mm humanoid robot with 16 degrees of freedom. Reverse-engineered the proprietary WitMotion binary protocol over UART and BLE Nordic UART Service, creating custom Python drivers published to PyPI.
BENCHTOP CT SCANNER
Computed Tomography scanner utilizing a salvage CRT TV vacuum tube driven by a flyback transformer and Cockcroft-Walton multiplier for X-ray generation, a dental intensifying screen, and an Arduino rotating platform.
DIFFUSION CLOUD CHAMBER
Continuous diffusion cloud chamber powered by stacked Peltier modules and a fly-zapper electrostatic clearing grid, visualizing alpha and beta particle tracks from Thorium, Americium, and Uranium sources.
SHELFIE (SHELFIE.SPACE)
Commercial platform transforming casual multi-angle smartphone photos into high-fidelity custom physical 3D figurines, complete with automated photogrammetry, ZBrush sculpting, and 8K resin printing pipelines.
SYSTEMS_REGISTRY
TINY TITAN
Ultra-miniature 95mm humanoid robot with 16 degrees of freedom. Reverse-engineered the proprietary WitMotion binary protocol over UART and BLE Nordic UART Service, creating custom Python drivers published to PyPI.
BENCHTOP CT SCANNER
Computed Tomography scanner utilizing a salvage CRT TV vacuum tube driven by a flyback transformer and Cockcroft-Walton multiplier for X-ray generation, a dental intensifying screen, and an Arduino rotating platform.
DIFFUSION CLOUD CHAMBER
Continuous diffusion cloud chamber powered by stacked Peltier modules and a fly-zapper electrostatic clearing grid, visualizing alpha and beta particle tracks from Thorium, Americium, and Uranium sources.
SHELFIE (SHELFIE.SPACE)
Commercial platform transforming casual multi-angle smartphone photos into high-fidelity custom physical 3D figurines, complete with automated photogrammetry, ZBrush sculpting, and 8K resin printing pipelines.
REWOUND MOT SPOT WELDER
Custom heavy-duty battery spot welder engineered from two rewound microwave oven transformers with 35mm² copper secondary cable, delivering >1200A peak current with precision dual-pulse SCR timing.
TOPOLOGY-OPTIMIZED NEWTONIAN
Custom 3D-printed Newtonian reflecting telescope with finite element analysis (FEA) topology optimization for maximum structural stiffness, curved secondary spider, and precision helical focuser.
HACKRF ONE: RF AUDIT & NOAA
Software Defined Radio platform spanning 1MHz to 6GHz. Conducted Sub-GHz rolling code replay research on automotive keyfobs and constructed a tuned QFH antenna to decode NOAA-15/18/19 weather satellites.
1150°C ELECTRIC FOUNDRY
Custom electric resistance foundry reaching 1150°C with Kanthal A1 coils, ceramic fiber insulation, and PID temperature control for melting aluminum, copper, and bronze into casting ingots.
HIGH-VOLTAGE LICHTENBERG RIG
High-voltage fractal wood-burning apparatus powered by a 2.2kV microwave oven transformer, creating self-similar dendritic Lichtenberg figures along electrolyte-soaked wood grain.
CUSTOM COREXY 3D PRINTERS
Scratch-built CoreXY 3D printers with rigid aluminum extrusion frames, MGN12H linear rails, stationary dual-motor kinematics, Klipper input shaping, and 300°C+ all-metal hotends.
REINFORCED 3018 CNC LASER & PLOTTER
Customized 3018 CNC platform upgraded with a 5.5W optical laser module, structural aluminum gussets, anti-backlash leadscrews, and patched GRBL firmware supporting unipolar stepper plotters.
ESP32 RC FLIGHT CONTROLLER
Avionics flight controller built on ESP32 running an asynchronous WebSocket server for real-time smartphone browser joystick control, MPU6050 6-axis attitude horizon display, and dual ESC steering.
3D-PRINTED AERODYNAMIC RC PLANE
Fully 3D-printed radio-controlled aircraft featuring active foaming LW-PLA thin-wall construction, internal gyroid spars, interlocking bayonet joints, and high-speed parkjet aerodynamics.
HOT-WIRE CUT FOAM RC GLIDER
Long-endurance RC thermal glider built with custom nichrome hot-wire bow cutter, high-density extruded polystyrene (XPS) foam airfoils, and fiberglass strapping reinforcement.
FOLDED FOAM-BOARD RC AIRFRAME
Aerobatic RC delta wing built using paper-faced foam board score-and-fold techniques, featuring a mid-mounted pusher motor, reinforced bevel hinges, and extreme impact durability.
DEEP CONVOLUTIONAL FACE SYNTHESIZER
Deep learning generative modeling system in Keras/TensorFlow using Deep Convolutional GAN (DCGAN) and Conditional GAN architectures to synthesize realistic human faces and morph facial attributes.
CUSTOM FPV RACER DRONES
Custom 5-inch FPV racing quadcopters featuring carbon fiber X-frames, 6S power architecture, 2207 brushless motors, Betaflight 8kHz PID loops, and low-latency 5.8GHz video transmission.
ARDUCOPTER GPS DRONE
Autonomous multirotor drone built on a 32-bit Pixhawk flight controller running ArduCopter firmware, equipped with GPS/compass mast, MAVLink telemetry radio, and autonomous mission planning.
FLYSKY FS-I6 FIRMWARE MOD
Hardware reverse engineering and SWD firmware upgrade of the FlySky FS-i6 radio transmitter, unlocking 10 full proportional channels, flight timers, and iBus/sBus telemetry streams.
PWNAGOTCHI: AI WPA AUDITOR
Autonomous cybernetic Wi-Fi auditing companion built on Raspberry Pi Zero W and a Waveshare e-paper display, powered by deep reinforcement learning (A2C) to harvest WPA/WPA2 handshakes.
ESP8266/ESP32 WIFI DEAUTHER
Embedded wireless penetration testing hardware leveraging raw 802.11 frame injection on Espressif microcontrollers to conduct deauthentication attacks, beacon spamming, and rogue AP detection.
LOCAL HOME ASSISTANT HUB
Air-gapped, privacy-focused home automation server on Raspberry Pi 4 with a CC2652P Zigbee 3.0 coordinator, Zigbee2MQTT, local MQTT message bus, and ESPHome custom sensor nodes.
HEADLESS OCTOPRINT SERVERS
Headless Raspberry Pi print server network providing remote G-code telemetry, 1080p camera inspection, bed mesh visualization, and automated thermal runaway cutoff for 3D printers.
RESONANT AIR-CORE TESLA COIL
Classic spark-gap resonant air-core Tesla coil featuring a flat spiral copper primary, high-voltage pulse capacitor tank, 1000-turn secondary, and toroidal top load producing 30cm+ corona discharges.
ELECTROLYSIS METAL PLATING
Electrochemical plating bath depositing uniform copper, nickel, and zinc metallic coatings onto metallic objects and 3D printed plastic parts pre-treated with conductive graphite spray.
CUSTOM MULTI-RAIL BENCH LAB PSU
Custom multi-rail electronics bench power supply combining linear low-noise rails (3.3V, 5V, ±12V) with variable 0-30V / 0-10A CC/CV buck-boost regulation and digital metering.
CRT TV VECTOR OSCILLOSCOPE
Repurposed vintage CRT television converted into an X-Y magnetic vector monitor, driven by dual high-power audio amplifiers to display real-time analog Lissajous curves and audio vector waveforms.
REAL-TIME HAZARD & FIRE DETECTION CNN
Real-time computer vision hazard detection system using deep convolutional neural networks (custom CNN / fine-tuned VGG16) in TensorFlow/OpenCV to detect flame and smoke in video feeds.
NEAT AUTONOMOUS GAMING AGENT
Recreated the classic game Icy Tower in Python/PyGame and trained an autonomous neural agent using Neuroevolution of Augmenting Topologies (NEAT) to master platform climbing.
TORSO RADIOGRAPHY PULMONARY CLASSIFIER
Biomedical computer vision diagnostic system using deep convolutional transfer learning in Keras/TensorFlow to detect bacterial and viral pneumonia in chest X-ray radiographs.
RING-0 KERNEL DRIVER & MEMORY EXPLOITATION
Windows Kernel-Mode Driver (KMDF) operating at Ring 0 for virtual memory manipulation, CR3 control register translation, usermode API hook bypasses, and heap exploitation.
AUTOMOTIVE REPAIR ERP PLATFORM
Full-stack Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platform (`tirERP`) engineered for automotive tire and repair shops, managing inventory tracking, repair work orders, and billing.
ENTERPRISE AI ADOPTION
Leading the architectural design and deployment of generative AI and autonomous agentic coding systems across defense engineering teams, scaling automated code review and RAG systems.
CAPABILITIES
AGENTIC_SYSTEMS
Autonomous workflows, LLM orchestration, Model Context Protocol (MCP), reverse engineering agents, code audit systems.
HARDWARE_&_FABRICATION
High-voltage electronics, microwave transformer rewinding, FEA topology optimization in SolidWorks, vacuum/plasma systems, micro-servo robotics.
RF_&_EMBEDDED
Software Defined Radio (HackRF One), satellite telemetry, BLE Nordic UART, ESP32 flight controllers, Ring-0 kernel drivers.