What's Brewing

Blacksmith Knowledge Base

A straightforward personal RAG system built for a private collection of rare ironcraft and blacksmithing texts, books with archaic math, technical diagrams, and craft knowledge that don’t all exist digitally. Content comes from two sources: digitized PDFs and a website crawled to markdown. Going as straightforward as possible for the POC: both PDFs and MDs land in S3 as the single source of truth, with object metadata carrying provenance (title, author, year, language, rights) through to citations in the chat layer.

Bedrock Knowledge Bases handles embedding, indexing, and retrieval. No OpenSearch for cost considerations.

Open question: how well do embedding models handle scanned historical content with technical diagrams and archaic math notation. A preprocessing pipeline can be added if testing proves it necessary.

Private use for now, with a longer-term target of library-scale deployment for legally ingested, rights-cleared collections that want their content conversational and citable.

Hand Mirror

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AR toy that connects matching fingers across both hands with animated wobbly lines, toggled entirely by gesture.

Content Editorial Engine

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Multi-agent content ideation system: four signal sources, a distillation layer, and a conversational editorial agent that produces ready-to-execute briefs for blogs, thought leadership, or tutorial pieces.