✳ The shelf Every toy the lab
Every toy the lab
has ever made.
Some escaped and live at their own *.lanvar.ai address. Some are still cooking. Some are retired with honour. All of them taught the lab something.
Still cooking inkmind The next thing to escape the lab. Landing at inkmind.lanvar.ai. Did its thing Clever Cut A smart 3D trimmer: scan your head, paint zones with different guard lengths, and the blade adjusts itself in real time as you move it. BEng capstone Did its thing Scenery Point it at a React repo and it generates real product demo videos from your components — narrated, animated, and self-scored until they’re good. Escaped the lab arty's claude newsletter A daily AI newsletter with zero servers and zero API bill: Python fetches the firehose, Claude judges it, and the inbox gets opinions — not summaries. Escaped the lab stagiaire-bot A zero-cost watchdog that logs into UdeM’s medical placement portal every 15 minutes and emails the moment a stage slot opens up. Did its thing NURO A wearable memory aid that records life as it happens and answers “who did I meet today?” with semantic search over your own conversations. 6th hackathon win Did its thing MouseGPT Decoding where a mouse is in a maze — from nothing but its neural activity. Machine learning as mind reading, 24 hours on the clock. 2nd place · PharmaHacks 2024 Did its thing Coal to Goal Not code — policy. A four-phase plan to move China’s Shanxi province off coal without wrecking the people who depend on it. Second place at Yale’s policy hackathon. 2nd place · Yale × Yale-NUS Global Policy Hackathon Did its thing net-worth projector A financial-education app built for SunLife’s ConUHacks challenge: see your money’s trajectory, with inflation doing its worst in the projection. Escaped the lab Echo An accessible PDF reader that wraps every single word in its own element — so it can read aloud, highlight, and track your focus word by word. Escaped the lab Royal Sounds A real business runs on this: quote requests for an event-AV company — weddings, DJ rigs, dry ice, sparklers — flowing into a staff dashboard. Did its thing FLASHIFY Upload your lecture notes as a PDF, get a studyable flashcard deck back in minutes — built and deployed solo in one hackathon weekend. Did its thing stem cell classifier A classification model for stem cells that took first place at PharmaHacks — at the same fair that ignited the whole ML obsession a year earlier. 1st place · PharmaHacks Did its thing microbiome classifier Reading disease out of gut bacteria: a neural network over 1,094 microbial abundance features, with SMOTE fixing a brutally imbalanced dataset. Did its thing GymPose Record any exercise and the AI names it — then hands you the pros, cons, alternatives, and tutorials. No more “that one shoulder thing.” People's Choice · MaisHacks 2022 Did its thing PDF image locator Find where an image lives inside a textbook PDF — by matching pixel matrices directly, because OCR kept getting it wrong. Best Educational Hack · McHacks 9 Retired toy TamilConnect Scan a grocery receipt and get back recipes you can cook tonight — plus restaurants nearby for the nights you won’t. Retired toy LIA An AI companion for people with severe memory loss — answering their questions from a guardian-curated knowledge base, no third party needed. Best Health Hack · NewHacks 2021 Did its thing Green Switch The origin story: an Arduino lighting system, built as a teenager, that dims rooms by how much daylight is already there — good enough for ISEF. ISEF 2018 finalist · Embedded Systems
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