N 40° · W 105°
EST. 2024
Systems engineering
for things that fly, think, and ship.
Dauntless Systems is an independent engineering lab — currently a sample size of one — working on the parts of aerospace and AI infrastructure that don't get built when programs are too big to take risks and too small to pay attention.
01⎯Selected work
Spacecraft Attitude Control Sim
PrototypeInteractive rigid-body attitude simulator for reaction wheel and RCS sizing, fault tolerance, and layout trades.
Mars Satellite Architecture
Trade studyArchitecture study for delivering useful orbital infrastructure to Mars on a faster, cheaper timeline.
Open-Loop Daily Digest
ProductionAn experiment running in public: a local LLM writes a daily research digest with zero human curation, and posts it here.
Design Graph
PrototypeA Neo4j-backed digital thread for effectivity-aware design traceability across spacecraft and hardware programs.
AI-Driven PCB Pipeline
PrototypeIntent in English → SKiDL circuit → KiCad board → fab-ready Gerbers, with an LLM as the systems architect.
02⎯Current focus
Every project here is in flight; the four below are where attention is going this month. The rest get touched as the work upstream forces them to move.
- 01
Mars satellite architecture
Closing the customer story for the 2028 inaugural launch.
- 02
Hopping rover
Phase 5 contact simulation and self-righting envelope.
- 03
Design Graph
Splitting the public showcase from the private working graph.
- 04
Local LLM self-improvement
Phase 1 — llama.cpp on ROCm with quantized KV cache.