Jackson Log
Friday, Dec 12, 2025
Creating digital twins using game engines for ease of access and development. Godot is the open source alternative to unity. It is missing a lot of the functionality and really powerful physics stuff but the nice part is it's open source! so we can just make the stuff we need.
Thursday, Dec 11, 2025
Took a long sleep, revived!
Dec 8-10, 2025
Depression. Still working but sad.
Sunday, Dec 7, 2025
Worked on the house. Got Text-To-Cad working. Learning about repositories per OSE Part Library, CAD Repositories, JacksonL's CAD Work, Talk:Induction Furnace, Miro
Saturday, Dec 6, 2025
Built a text to cad environment with antigravity, will upgrade. Working on systems thinking now.Okay that was kinda fruitless. Going back to upgrading the text to cad environment for a more integrated engineering environment or something
I have a hypothesis about the "best way to do creation" based on your current setup and our previous discussions on biomimicry.
Hypothesis: The "Living Model" Paradigm
Currently, you are doing Imperative Injection: sending raw code strings to FreeCAD to "do X". This is like surgery—effective but invasive and brittle.
The "Best Way" is likely Declarative Homeostasis (Biomimetic approach):
DNA (The Spec): Define what you want (e.g., a TowerConfig object or JSON), not how to build it. Growth (The Generator): A system inside FreeCAD that reads the DNA and "grows" the geometry. Homeostasis (Idempotency): The system checks: "Does the current 3D world match the DNA?" If yes: Do nothing (Energy efficient). If no: Heal/Update the difference (Adaptation). Practical Implication for Antigravity: Instead of complete_tower.py sending a script string, it should send a signal or gene (parameters) to a TowerBuilder class already resident in the FreeCAD environment.
Would you like to explore this "Living Model" architecture? I can help you refactor the tower scripts to demonstrate this "Growth" capability.
Friday, Dec 5, 2025
Long day workin on the hangar. Concrete pour
Thursday, Dec 4, 2025
Updated the website with Roof Numbering, Added dimensions button, made Antigravity Tutorial, working on developing the full tech stack,
Wednesday, Dec 3, 2025
OpenProject, Updated the website. Recorded an antigravity tutorial but my microphone was off haha. First thing tomorrow. Adding BOM
Tuesday, Dec 2, 2025
Working on the modules, working on the tool/website. Learning about Full Stack Development. Tools like Asana, Notion. And their Open-Source alternatives. Found one for asana - OpenProject
Trying to set things up to improve OSE. Seems like we need some sort of central nervous system. Somewhere people can express their needs, track projects, chat, whatever. Working on it!
Monday, Dec 1, 2025
SH7 CAD Alternative, Worked on the hangar a little bit. Mostly worked on the website though (the website is the cad alternative) 8am-3:30am
Sunday, Nov 30, 2025
On the seventh day, god rested... or something. Too tired to work on the hanger. Working on the website instead.
Saturday, Nov 29, 2025
Worked on the hangar until 7:45-6pm. 6pm Meeting. Worked on the website until 1:20am. Bed
Friday, Nov 28, 2025
Working on the hanger. Inside. Google Antigravity. I really think we could use this to solve most of our problems :)
Thursday, Nov 27, 2025
Working on the hanger. Outside. Birthday :) Nini made me a cake. Thanksgiving ;]
Wednesday, Nov 26, 2025
Working on the hanger. Outside.
Tuesday, Nov 25, 2025
Working on the hanger. Outside.
Monday, Nov 24, 2025
Working on the hanger. Outside. Met Nini, Tony Shay, Brenno, Sage, Joel.
Sunday, Nov 23, 2025
Working on the hanger. Starting to learn. Learned the difference between an impact drill and a regular one. Learned the trick to suck in wood with screws and blocks. Met Aidan, Ben, Jeremy, Ena, Hannah, Bo, Nick, Roy.
Saturday, Nov 22, 2025
Flew in to KCI, got set up at the Hablab
Friday, Nov 21, 2025
Finally got Aider-Desk installed. Seems like it works with Ollama :)
Started the day trying to get automation going. Seems like there is a whole world out there of this stuff. Sometimes I see it called "Workflows". There is a lot of stuff being made on this. There is n8n which is open source but not free I believe. There is certainly an open source free alternative, but I am hardstuck because I don't really understand coding. So I thought okay well it's fine to not understand coding if I can get something like and AI assistant that can handle the coding for me. Found a few online. People recommend Windsurf except it's not open source or free... seems like it's a part of Devin which looks interesting but... yeah not open source or free. Tried to get Zed but I just doesn't open after download. Started trying to get Aider but I really don't like blasting code into my terminal that I don't understand.
TL;DR is I think I just need to go back to first principles and just learn how linux works instead of just reaching for the best tools.
Found this in a youtube video: LinuxJourney
Tuesday, Nov 18, 2025
Monday, Nov 17, 2025
Saturday, Nov 15, 2025
Hello all! I wanted to share information about my new laptop I bought! It's called System76. Pre-built linux machine that is open source and puts your privacy first c: Highly recommend!
Monday, Oct 21, 2025
Systems Architecture Model (SAM), MBSE (Model-Based Systems Engineering), Obsidian, Fireflies.ai ...
Thinking about how to be effective. Considering automating/fusing these together. Some workflow where recorded audio (Fireflies) or text could be woven into the SAM and MBSE framework. Allowing collaborative real-time editing and suggestion mapping. Obsidian could be used in the process to collect thoughts before pushing wider packages through to the more complex modelling. Also just found out about Jeffrey Sachs, what a rockstar. Stuck at work 9-5 so I wanted to put my thoughts out there and hope. Also, you can ask GPT to write mediawiki for you (phew!).
All the best. Jackson
Thursday, Oct 18, 2025
Cleaning PC, creating backups, preparing to dualboot Linux & Windows.
Thursday, Oct 16, 2025
Getting involved! Checked out Github. Ordered a USB for OSE Linux 3. Will boot up and attempt Developer Test.