Samuel Russell

At the 2024 connect Meta unveiled Orion – an Augmented Reality glasses prototype that includes a Neural Wristband. The wristband…

After a year of using a stack of cardboard boxes as shelves, and having some available free time, I set…

One of the areas I supported during my time at Meta’s Neural Interfaces team was academic collaborations. These sorts of…

I originally bough my bicycle custom from Mission Bicycle in San Francisco (now defunct 😢). It was spec’ed mostly as…

In February 2024 The CTRL org operating inside Meta Reality Labs posted a paper providing a broad overview of much…

A wood-working project to build a media center for our basement

Facebook Connect was today, and offered a glimpse at one of the projects I’ve contributed to this year. Most of…

In November 2019 the startup I was working at, CTRL-Labs, was aquired by Facebook, to be integrated into their AR/VR…

Another EL (Electroluminescent Wire) project, this time a Dia de los Muertos style skull, done with the EL wire passing…

Observability at Scale: Building Uber’s Alerting Ecosystem November 20, 2018 Uber’s Observability team built a robust, scalable metrics and alerting…

In October 2018 I worked on creating a custom card-deck as a present for my girlfriend, based on the idea…

Another EL-wire art project

A NYC Subway Map, re-created in glowing colored Electroluminescent wire

A Journey to 50 Pizza Places across New York! See the Map on Google!

A series of experiments with Time-Lapse Panorama photos Marin Headlands Cargo Ship Bay Bridge Lights Sutro Tower

A project from 2015 that ingested public data on San Francisco Muni, BART, caltrain, Cablecar, Boat, and Plane locations, and…

An project exploring Android App development, Game Design, 3D Modeling, and Interactive Sound Design. Visit on the Google Android Store

A (discontinued) Android App to show Notifications on your lockscreen (before this became a built-in OS feature)