Build · 2024
Building a Self-Drawing Etch A Sketch
A Raspberry Pi robot that turns the knobs of an Etch A Sketch for me. It converts any picture into a single continuous line and draws it in about two minutes.
Full-stack software engineer · Hawaii
Hi, I'm Micah.
I build AI products and web apps, and I make videos about the other cool things I build.
Selected work
Featured projects
Build · 2025
I Built a Bike-Powered Minecart to Exercise in Minecraft
I turned an exercise bike into a Minecraft controller. Pedaling in real life drives a minecart in VR while an Ender Dragon chases me.
Build · 2024
I Put ChatGPT Into an Eraser
I built a tiny ChatGPT-powered eraser prototype with a camera, OCR pipeline, home server API, OLED display, and 3D printed enclosure.
Software · 2026
Know Your District
An AI agent, map, and report builder for Hawaiʻi's 76 legislative districts. It answers plain-language questions about who lives in a district and which programs could help them, and every number links back to its source.
Software · 2024
DarkMode: Interactive Energy Exhibit
An interactive energy-awareness exhibit for the Hawaii Keiki Museum, built at HACC 2024: 3D-printed IoT light and switch devices, a live energy dashboard, a Unity "save the island" display, and an energy chatbot for kids.
Software · 2024
CreateX Visualization
I built an augmented reality visual-effects demo for the CreateX space at UH West Oahu, using Unity VFX Graph to render GPU-accelerated particle systems at large scale.
Hackathons
Award winning
1st place · HACC 2025Software · 2025
Interstellar
An AI planning app that turns a student's goals and transcripts into a personalized four-year University of Hawaiʻi degree plan. It won first place in the professional category at HACC 2025.
2nd place · Aloha Data 2025Software · 2025
GenEDU / Aloha Climate Edu
A full-stack AI platform that turns a topic or uploaded notes into a narrated, animated video lesson with a thumbnail and a quiz, pitched at any grade level. It won second place at the Aloha Data AI Hackathon for Hawaiʻi's Resilience.
2nd place · HACC 2025Software · 2025
AppScreen
An AI job screening platform that grades applicants requirement by requirement and explains every score. It took second place in the professional category at HACC 2025.
2nd place · HACC 2023Software · 2023
Ask Hoku: AI Chat Assistant for UH Manoa
An AI chat assistant that answers University of Hawaii ITS questions from UH help articles. It won second place at HACC 2023; I built its data pipeline, retrieval, and prompt-injection defenses.
Experience
Where I've worked
Full-Stack Software Engineer
- One of two developers building Tadata.ai, a business AI assistant and workflow automation platform, and AiToVid, an AI-powered PowerPoint-to-narrated-video converter.
- Built full-stack features including AI workflow orchestration, document processing, and presentation analysis.
- Also built voice narration, multilingual dubbing, and video export.
Student Assistant
- Developed Hoku, a RAG agent that answers University of Hawaii questions, in a high-performance computing environment.
- Focused on reusable software design, graph-backed retrieval, and improved answer accuracy.
Content Creator & Educator
- Create educational programming content for YouTube and TikTok, explaining coding concepts, algorithms, and software projects to broad audiences.
- Handle scripting, recording, editing, and production.
Content creation
Teaching programming through projects and real examples
My creator work gives me a direct feedback loop with learners and sharpens how I explain technical systems. I make educational coding and build videos for YouTube and short-form platforms.