Projects | Michael Kim's

2026-10-23

[Hackathon 3/3] Cal Hacks 13.0 — Drigil, a Job Coach in Smart Glasses

2nd place in Anthropic's Claude for Public Benefit track. Building the live video-analysis hardware pipeline and emergency call system for a smart-glasses job coach supporting workers with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

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2026-10-17

[Hackathon 2/3] ExecuTorch Hackathon — IDK Button, Context-Aware Interpretation on an NPU

Building a context-aware interpreter with Arduino VENTUNO Q and Qualcomm Hexagon NPU. My work as project lead covered model conversion, quantization, NPU inference, and validation.

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2026-10-02

[Hackathon 1/3] SF Hacks 2026 — GatorAccess Campus Accessibility Navigator

The first of three hackathon stories: leading a four-person team and integrating Firebase for GatorAccess, an SFSU campus accessibility app.

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2026-07-26

[Image/Video] Running the Sony DCR-PC101 Without Tape: A Mini DVR Wiring Saga

Digitizing an old tape recorder using a DVR

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2026-03-24

[Planning] Soyuz: A Nixie Tube Wristwatch Project

A premium artisan smartwatch upcycling 1950s–70s Eastern Bloc high-voltage discharge tubes (Nixie tubes)

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2026-02-26

[Kiosk - Planning/Overview] Building a 20-Million-Won Parking Kiosk from a 50,000-Won Secondhand One

From refurbishing a secondhand kiosk to live-operation troubleshooting — a full guide to this parking-lot automation series.

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2025-12-1

[HW Development] WaveRunner: An On-Device AI Hearing Aid

Clear conversation even in noise — building the on-device AI voice amplifier 'WaveRunner'

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