Hi, I'm Ken Macy, your silicon chef and robot wrangler.

Welcome to the clanker kitchen.

From Soulless Slop to Creative Cuisine.

I invite you to take a look at our delicious menu of computational cuisine. From mediocre media to post-apocalyptic party plans, if creative junkfood is your craving, we have the compute. Once you slop, you can't stop.

The constellation

The whole practice, one picture.

Every project tied to the tools and ideas it shares. Roll over a node and the field stills so you can trace its threads. Drag the empty space to spin the whole cluster.

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The same menu, as a place.

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The work I'd show you first.

01Featured

Karoshi

BuiltUpdated Jun 2026

The studio. 20+ years of campaign motion design and brand storytelling under one name.

Live at karoshi.co

Animation · Creative Direction · Brand · 2025

Patina Turner

Concept

Furnish your place off Craigslist. It shops the real secondhand listings near you, stages them into a room you can actually picture, and hands you the list.

AI · Interiors · Secondhand · 2026

Smooth Operator

Running

An analog touchtone phone running a full local AI stack on a Jetson. Dial a digit, get a different mind; every morning it prints a zine of your day.

In service at home, answers the line daily

AI · Voice · Hardware · 2025

Faible Records

In progressUpdated Jun 2026

Fake bands, real charity. An AI generated record label where every purchase funds something true.

Live at faiblerecords.com

AI-Generated · E-Commerce · Music · 2026

2026· 50

15
Half a Century of Weirdness
In progress
A talk for the team: fifty years of making things, charted. The workbook is the database.
AI · Presentation · Retrospective · 2026
14
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Cloche
In progress
A bell jar weather replicator. LED sky, OLED dashboard, sound. Recreates a chosen city's sky indoors.
On the shelf polling the weather right now
Hardware · ESP32 · NeoPixel · 2026
12
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DJ ADHDJ
In progressUpdated Jun 2026
Tiny neural nets compose drum and bass basslines and drums live in the browser, mixed by a 24/7 DJ engine.
AI · Audio · Music · 2026
18
The Peltier Bandolier
Built
A body-heat harness that lit an LED off my own warmth. Food-powered electronics, proven on a fingertip.
Worn on the body, lit a fingertip LED from body heat alone
Hardware · Wearable · Energy Harvesting · 2026
17
★ Featured
Arcade Fryer
Built
A 3D arcade of playable mini-games. A restaurant corp's internal gaming team, archived as cabinets you can walk up to and play.
Live, playable arcade
Arcade · WebGL · three.js · 2026
19
★ Featured
BlipWars
Built
A Marine Arena style RTS. Phaser client, authoritative Node server, playable right here.
Playable in the browser
Game · Multiplayer · Phaser · 2026
21
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Curse-Collar
Built
Say a curse word, the dog collar buzzes. 433 MHz from a Jetson. Vibrate only, by design.
Buzzing on the desk
AI · Hardware · Jetson · 2026
05
★ Featured
Gene 515. Remix
Built
A prequel to Genesis sci-fi universe, reshot with Seedance 2 through ComfyUI on vacation.
AI Video · Seedance 2 · ComfyUI · 2026
20
AI Speech Assessor
Built
Records my speech, flags the filler and the hedging. Offline analysis that tells me how I actually talk.
AI · Self-Improvement · Speech · 2026
06
Template Machine
Built
ScriptUI toolkit for motion designers who hate doing the same thing twice.
After Effects · Creative Tools · ScriptUI · 2026
10
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McFly
Built
A fruit fly you can puppet. NeuroMechFly biomechanics in Three.js, running in the browser.
Live demo on this site
Python · Three.js · WebGL · 2026
22
SuperMoBrainz
Built
The Mo-BrAInz sequel. Deep AE domain knowledge, expression libraries, error correction.
After Effects · AI · JavaScript · 2026
23
SpaceTable
Built
A local AI work hub with a 3D constellation of your tasks. Talk to it like a person.
AI · Three.js · Node.js · 2026
30
Betacam Splat
ConceptUpdated Jun 20262026
Rebuild my dad's early-80s home videos as walkable 3D, splicing each camera move into one scene.
57
Death Pile
Concept2026
Resellers source faster than they list. A guided video and an honest AI turn the pile into inventory.
58
The Universal Language
Concept2026
Babel, undone. Everyone keeps their own tongue; the machine layer translates perfectly between all of them.
56
Corvid
Concept2026
Train the neighborhood crows to bring me things. Tiered treats for tiered deliveries.
59
Semaphore
Concept2026
Two agents talking in QR codes, screen to camera. Slower and pricier than text. That's not the point.
50
Cairn
Concept2026
A goal coach that watches the whole year, not the last month. Less bias, more receipts.
52
Drover
Concept2026
Herding dogs for crowded human spaces. Wayfinding with a wet nose.
54
Foodcourt
Concept2026
A 3D mall walking game that exists to deliver terrible food court puns. The list is the product.
43
Hive
Concept2026
Local agents triaging the creative department's notification chaos. Proposal stage, fully scoped.
46
Whistle Stop
Concept2026
A model train that patrols a retail diorama and streams itself. Security camera as toy.
48
Fetch
Concept2026
Computer vision plays fetch with the dog while you're at work. Everyone wins, mostly the dog.
49
Hanzi
Concept2026
Compress LLM prompts through denser languages. Same meaning, fewer tokens, smaller bill.
41
Datasette
Concept2026
AI music hidden in Commodore Datasette tapes. The album is also the software.
42
Aiku
Concept2026
Domain names that scan as haiku. A syllable counter with taste.
38
Doublespeak
Concept2026
An RPG where the final boss is corporate language. Satire with a skill tree.
39
Scrapocalypse
Concept2026
A survival TV format where makers rebuild civilization from curb finds. Casting is the hard part.
31
Plate Karma
Concept2026
Networked dashcams vote on driver behavior. Community karma for license plates.
33
Goroawase
Concept2026
Japanese number wordplay as a mnemonic engine. Phone numbers that mean things.
34
The Memory Palace
Concept2026
Gaussian splat your childhood home before it's gone. Walk it in VR forever.
36
Carface
Concept2026
Every car rear is a face. An image model that reads the mood of traffic.
65
Hardpass
Concept2026
A resume tool that's adversarial by design. Practice against the recruiter who eats people for breakfast.
32
The Conversation Civilizer
Concept2026
Real time transcription that lowers the temperature of family arguments.
35
Barkangel
Concept2026
An energy harvesting GPS collar charged by the dog being a dog.
37
Peltier Bug Lights
Concept2026
Bug lights powered by the temperature difference your parked car wastes.
40
The Symbiotic Plant Robot
Concept2026
A Roomba with a planter that chases sunbeams. The plant pays rent in shade.
44
The Talking Table
Concept2026
A dinner table where every seat hears every voice clearly. Furniture as hearing aid.
45
EvenTone
Concept2026
An argument translator. Both sides type, both sides get the civil version.
47
The Sound Igloo
Concept2026
A dome of reversed speakers that eats the city's noise and hands you silence.
51
The Light-Communicators
Concept2026
A robot with no voice, only color. Conversation as light show.
53
The Record That Draws
Concept2026
A record that plays music and draws pictures through a spectrogram. One groove, two artworks.
55
The Solarphobic Machine
Concept2026
A dark room, a hundred solar machines, and your flashlight. Light the floor and they scatter.
60
Craigslist House
Concept2026
A livable house built entirely from the free section. The spreadsheet is the foundation.
61
Gravity Battery / Water Harvester / Terraform Tower
Concept2026
Gravity battery, water harvester, and slow terraformer in one desert tower.
63
Climate Cases
Concept2026
Glass vitrines of dying landscapes in an airport hallway. Climate data as museum piece.
62
Embryo
Concept2026
A language model born blank. No pretraining, no internet. It only knows the text you feed it.
64
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Idea Factory
Concept
One shell command saves an idea forever. SQLite on Modal, scales to zero, costs nothing while idle.
Deployed on Modal, in daily use
Modal · FastAPI · SQLite · 2026
66
Squish Wish
Concept2026
A squishy subscription box engineered to cost five hours a month to run. The ops are the product.

2025· 6

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Emojimo
Running
Multiplayer emoji survival game. GPT powered NPCs trade, talk, and breed. 22,000 lines of working game.
Live at emojimo.co
Game Dev · AI · JavaScript · 2025
16
Gene 515
In progress
A prequel to Genesis. The same story, retold with the information we have now.
Sci-fi · Worldbuilding · Trailer · 2025
07
FlashBack
Built
Flash style state machines for After Effects. The interaction model AE never shipped.
After Effects · Animation · Creative Tools · 2025
08
After Effects AI Copilot
Built
An AI copilot for After Effects. CEP extension, multi-model consensus, voice control, mobile remote.
After Effects · AI · Creative Tools · 2025
09
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Savoy Ballroom Display
Built
AI documentary and physical display honoring the Savoy. Custom LoRA trained on 13 photographs.
Shown at a sold-out hospice fundraiser
ComfyUI · AI Art · LoRA · 2025
24
Console to AE
Built
Chrome extension that pipes browser console events into AE timelines as markers.
Chrome Extension · After Effects · Creative Tools · 2025

2024· 4

13
★ Featured
The Couch Bison
In progress
I skin curbside couches for their leather. The grant version uses every part, like the bison.
Found Materials · Reuse · Sustainability · 2024
25
Two Horns
Built
A train horn on a scooter. The argument: every vehicle deserves a polite horn and a serious one.
Hardware · Hack · Vehicle · 2024
26
Analog Turn Signals
Built
Boots with ferro rods in the heels. Drag a foot to signal a turn in sparks. Worn, not just built.
Hardware · Analog · Wearable · 2024
27
Plant Watering Insult Machine
Built
A houseplant that swears at you when it's thirsty. Moisture sensor, solar speaker, escalating rudeness.
Object · Sensors · Solar · 2024

2020· 1

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★ Featured
The Six-Foot Mask
Built
A respirator that enforces distance. Proximity sensors and a squirt of water for the encroachers.
Exhibited at the Arvada Center, 2020
Wearable · Art · COVID · 2020

2008· 1

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Ashi Dashi
Closed
My sock company. Novelty illustration, Japanese wordplay, actual inventory in an actual garage.
Founded 2008, shipped real socks
Brand · Product Design · Fashion · 2008

The deep dive

How it escalated.

Dates from the repositories' own receipts, not from memory. User, then builder, then host, then breeder. The curiosity compounds.

2008 – 2024
The hands
Two decades of physical things with opinions. Every instinct the AI work needs is already here.
Ashi Dashi The Six-Foot Mask The Couch Bison Analog Turn Signals
Nov 2025
First contact
AI enters as a playmate: a survival game where the NPCs have minds.
Emojimo
Jan – Mar 2026
The tools
AI becomes a coworker. Copilots for the day job, a record label run on prompts, a coach that argues back.
Faible Records SuperMoBrainz SpaceTable McFly
Apr – May 2026
The house
AI moves in, bounded by a wall and a receiver. The phone becomes a socket and the experiments dock.
The Red Phone Curse-Collar Embryo Cloche Idea Factory
Jun 2026 –
The models
From hosting AI to raising it: a game ships, a music model trains on the family vinyl, agents start talking to agents.
BlipWars DJ ADHDJ Semaphore Half a Century of Weirdness

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The whole practice, one picture.The whole practice, one picture.

2026· 50

2025· 6

2024· 4

2020· 1

2008· 1

How it escalated.How it escalated.

The hands

First contact

The tools

The house

The models

Got something that needs cooking?

The whole practice, one picture.

How it escalated.