Research in a Stick
USB AI research workstation that never needs the network. Chat, library, document analysis, citations in English and Kiswahili. Around KES 2,500–6,000 for students the internet misses.
I’m Shadrack Baraka Mwahanga, engineer and LLB student at Kabarak. Work gets built for people on feature phones, intermittent data, screenshot fraud, M-Pesa, and field crews across 47 counties. Portfolio here; the lab lives next door.
Full-viewport canvas work. Six biomes, keys 1–6. If you stop moving the mouse, the field keeps drifting on its own.
Built as experiments I wanted to watch. Hosted with the playground on GitHub Pages. Sound layer is still on the list.
Filter by constraint. Client demos stay in the GitHub list.
USB AI research workstation that never needs the network. Chat, library, document analysis, citations in English and Kiswahili. Around KES 2,500–6,000 for students the internet misses.
QR that dies in five seconds. Device fingerprint, one-time tokens, optional GPS and campus IP. Screenshot of an old code fails by design. Dashboards for students through deans.
Case search, structured briefs, comparison, citation generator for Kenyan law students. Time goes to arguments, not PDF hunts.
Plain-language rights for arrest, housing, work, traffic, consumer. Mobile-first and offline-friendly on the phones people already carry.
Dial a code, enter the session, and check in. No app, no camera, no data bundle. For sites where QR is a luxury.
Anonymous eFootball Mobile brackets. KES 100 entry, auto-draw when all 32 pay, WhatsApp fixtures, screenshot verification.
Sites, fuel fraud flags, breakdowns, deliveries, worker QR IDs, casual registry, boss dashboard. One record for a crew spread across Kenya.
CBO platform for Kisii and Nyamira. Programs, stories, media pipeline, diaspora engagement.
WhatsApp flows for rights questions and agribusiness worker grievances. Plain language, multi-language, SLA escalation.
React or Next when bandwidth exists; Node, Express, Postgres on USSD and money paths; FastAPI for research corpora; Firebase when realtime ops matter more than elegance. Thin client, boring API, offline path.
Law school taught me to read the rule. Field ops taught me to build the one that survives. I organize robotics and applied AI workshops on campus while leading Research in a Stick.
San Francisco. AI, security, and cloud. Registered attendee.
Offline AI research workstation on a USB stick. Team of four. Kabarak University.
Full Anthropic Claude Academy track. Fifteen badges.
Expiring QR, device binding, five-layer check-in. Pilot cleared.
LLB. First year. Law and code on the same desk.
Issuer links. Full write-up lives in the repo docs.
Or just say what broke and what you need shipped.