Ideas

Arguments about modular hardware, and the programs that build it

Essays on modular rover and satellite design, AI project management, and mission architecture. Each one states the opposing case before rebutting it, and ends with what would change my mind.

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  • AI project management for hardware programs

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    Where machine assistance helps requirements tracing and interface control, and where it manufactures false confidence. Written from failure modes, not tool demos.

  • One-off rovers and what they cost the next mission

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    Rovers are built as one-off vehicles, so nothing survives the mission that funded them. The argument for specifying the bus first, and the case against it.

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