Build what
doesn't exist
yet.
Circuits, code and metal. Robots, radio, vision and hardware, built and tested by Lidor Shimoni.
SPOTLIGHT_SYSTEMS
TINY TITAN
Ultra-miniature 95mm humanoid robot built as a Guinness World Record attempt (concluded). Reverse-engineered the proprietary WitMotion binary protocol over UART and BLE Nordic UART Service, creating custom Python drivers published to PyPI.
BENCHTOP CT SCANNER
A benchtop computed tomography (CT) scanner project.
DIFFUSION CLOUD CHAMBER
Continuous diffusion cloud chamber that visualizes charged-particle tracks, cooled by stacked Peltier modules - no liquid nitrogen or dry ice.
CUSTOM 3D PRINTERS & MODS
3D printers built, rebuilt and heavily upgraded over the years, with printed brackets and custom mods - the manufacturing engine behind the robotics, drone and RC projects here.
CUSTOM FPV RACER DRONES
Custom-built FPV racing and freestyle quadcopters, assembled from individual components and tuned in Betaflight.
MICROARM-35
A robot arm design targeting the Guinness World Record for the world's smallest robot arm (current record: 39.25mm, as of October 2026). Application filed October 2026. Work in progress: the arm is not built yet, and no record is held or claimed.
SO-101 AUTONOMOUS ARM
Home learning project: a 3D-printed SO-101 arm trained with an ACT imitation-learning policy to pick a chocolate bar off the desk and drop it into a mug - 52 teleop demos, $2.23 of cloud training, autonomous rollout.
SHELFIE
B2C web platform that turns a personal photo into a custom 3D-printed figurine. Upload a photo, an AI pipeline generates a stylized 3D character, the customer approves a preview, and the figurine is printed and delivered. Built with a partner; live at shelfie.space.
SYSTEMS_REGISTRY
MOT SPOT WELDER
Battery tab spot welder built around a salvaged microwave oven transformer.
NEWTONIAN TELESCOPE
My first Newtonian reflecting telescope, with a static analysis and topology-optimization (generative design) study of the upper focuser ring.
HACKRF ONE: RF AUDIT & NOAA
Software-defined radio work with a HackRF One: a hand-built QFH antenna for NOAA weather-satellite reception, and sub-GHz signal capture and analysis with Universal Radio Hacker.
ELECTRIC FOUNDRY
Electric resistance foundry for melting and casting aluminum and other non-ferrous metals, with PID temperature control.
HIGH-VOLTAGE LICHTENBERG RIG
High-voltage Lichtenberg wood-burning rig driven by a microwave oven transformer, producing fractal burn figures in wood.
3018 CNC & 28BYJ-48 PLOTTER FORK
A 3018 CNC machine, plus a lightly modified GRBL fork that extends 28BYJ-48 unipolar stepper support to all three axes for a 2D plotter.
ESP32 RC PLANE CONTROLLER
ESP32-based RC plane controller: the ESP32 (Seeed XIAO ESP32-S3) hosts its own Wi-Fi network and a web page with a virtual joystick for two DC motors, plus live IMU data, signal strength and an event log.
3D-PRINTED TWIN-MOTOR RC PLANE
A DIY 3D-printed RC plane with twin pusher motors and winglets, designed, printed and flown.
CAPABILITIES
AGENTIC_SYSTEMS
Autonomous workflows, LLM orchestration, Model Context Protocol (MCP), reverse engineering agents, code audit systems.
HARDWARE_&_FABRICATION
High-voltage electronics, microwave transformer rewinding, FEA topology optimization in SolidWorks, vacuum/plasma systems, micro-servo robotics.
RF_&_EMBEDDED
Software Defined Radio (HackRF One), satellite telemetry, BLE Nordic UART, ESP32 flight controllers, Ring-0 kernel drivers.
ABOUT
I work in cybersecurity and AI - currently driving organization-wide AI adoption, previously leading an R&D team. Alongside that, I build: 30+ documented systems spanning micro-robotics, high-voltage electronics, RF, and applied machine learning.
Previously a robotics developer at RoboTiCan (real-time robotic control and perception, CV/ML, ROS).
In 2024 I built Tiny Titan, a 95mm humanoid robot, as a Guinness World Record attempt. In 2026 I filed a new application with MicroArm-35, a 35mm robot arm targeting the record for the world's smallest robot arm.