Duarte Monteiro
I'm a BSc student in Electrical Engineering at a no name university in Portugal.
My life's work will be deploying robots.
I'm currently interested in a) Accelerating learning in robots and b) World Models.
Things I've built
- MNIST NN from scratch Created a Neural Network in C++ to recognize the MNIST dataset.
- 8-bit Computer Built it when I was 13, based on the book "Digital Computer Eletronics" by Albert Paul Malvino.
- RISC-V Assembler Built it during exam season (don't recommend it) to test the RISC-V CPU I created in verilog.
- DDS and CPU in verilog Developed during the an Erasmus+ partnership in Italy.
- Real Time Transit Built a PCB that tracks and visualizes 2 of my favourite bus lines in Porto.
Essays
- On Robotics Spent some time diving into the highest SNR place on earth for robotics.
- On China Spent a week in Shenzhen kickstarting my life's work in robotics, these are my impressions.
- Forcing Independence Living alone is the single best decision one can make early on in life.