About Kathy

Kathy builds.

Among things she builds are analog, software, hardware, Buildiful builds, and more.

"Build what you can. Build what (you thought) you couldn't."


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Kathy's creations and inventions (non-exhaustive list):

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  1. BRAIN
    1. Short for: Brain Resembling Additive Intelligence Network (a recursive acronym)
    2. Currently featured on The Silicon Valley Times
  2. Web 3.14
    1. NOT crypto-related
    2. The PI here also means "Public Intelligence"
    3. Coming soon to a browser near you
  3. Charcodes
    1. High-capacity QR codes
    2. aka "Ugly Codes"
    3. A new form of digital storage
    4. Powered by global character sets and Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
  4. Squarals
    1. A new data structure
    2. Can be used to implement advanced blockchains
    3. Spirals of squares
  5. Seeing Eye Robots
    1. Robo-assistants for the visually impaired

Tools

  1. Thingy
    1. Smart labeling OS
    2. Powered by Near Field Communication (NFC)

Games

  1. Zero and Won
    1. Card game about logic gates
  2. (Name to be unveiled soon)
    1. Card game about periodic elements, addition, and adding with an abacus
  3. Pickle
    1. Coming soon to a browser near you
  4. Pixzle
    1. Pixel x Puzzle
    2. Coming soon to a browser near you
  5. Trendley
    1. Part digital billboard
    2. Part word puzzle game
    3. Revolutionary feature
    4. Daily games on The Silicon Valley Times
  6. Norstu
    1. Word puzzle
    2. Solve by rearranging alphabetically sorted letters
    3. The name "Norstu" is a Norstu puzzle itself!

Team projects (in both employed and self-employed capacities; non-exhaustive list):

  1. World's largest gesture-controlled, immersive computer (as of 2025)
  2. AI smart glasses for the visually impaired
  3. Robotic exoskeleton for physical therapy
  4. 20+ commercially shipped games
  5. AI pathfinding for RoboCup Soccer