Publications
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Books
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published2025Profitable Black Soldier Fly Farming (opens in a new tab)
The BSF Book
A field guide to setting up and running a black soldier fly farm, written from operating Insectius' own plant: unit economics, validating before you scale, and pricing insect meal to compete with fish meal.
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published2024Luracoin (opens in a new tab)
A field guide to a small blockchain
A walk through Luracoin, the minimal cryptocurrency I wrote in Python: blocks, transactions, mining and Nakamoto consensus, in a codebase small enough to read end to end.
Get the book (opens in a new tab) - coming soon2027
Machines That See
Computer vision and robotics on the factory floor
Taking vision models out of the notebook and onto a production line: cameras, lighting, robotic arms and what breaks in the first month.
Patents
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ES 2 000 001 B2
System for counting small organisms in trays using computer vision
A camera rig and detection model that counts and sizes thousands of individuals per tray in seconds, replacing manual sampling.
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ES 2 000 002 B1
Method for controlling climate in modular growing rooms
Sensor readings and a predictive model steer temperature and humidity room by room, so a drift is corrected before it becomes a loss.
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EP 0 000 003 A1
Robotic end effector for handling stacked trays
A gripper for industrial arms that lifts, tilts and restacks loaded trays without spilling, so heavy repetitive handling moves to machines.
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WO 2025/000004
Wireless sensor network for monitoring substrate conditions
Low-power probes that report moisture, temperature and gas levels from inside the substrate, not just the air around it.
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ES 2 000 005 A1
Method for predicting batch yield from image sequences
Growth curves read from daily images forecast the harvest of each batch days in advance, so production can be planned instead of guessed.