I use AI to create products, then I build them and see if they work in the real world. I have a blast while doing it.
AI and I think it. I build it. The real world decides.
Journey
AI is changing everything. It lets me make things I never thought possible. AI Make is me sharing my journey of discovery.
About
I’m a mechanical engineer. I’ve founded, led, and sold companies in digital surgery and medical 3D printing. On my own time I use AI to go from idea to object, then find out if it survives.
Episodes
nothing published yet — first one's coming.
Challenges
This list may change. Here’s what I’m attempting right now — timed builds with a real budget. Order and scope can shift as the work decides.
- Turn a beer fridge into a dry-aging chamber — $32.99 / 20 active hours
- Reliable two-color printing on an existing machine — $50 / 20 active hours
- Build a capable CoreXY for less than buying one — ~30 active hours / ≤80% of a comparable commercial printer’s delivered price
- Make that printer earn back every dollar it cost — 25 active hours / 60-day sales window
- Stabilize a printer table with tuned-mass-damper thinking — $50 / 18 hours
- Engineer a better sear — $100 / 24 hours
- Automate one cookie-packaging step — $150 / 30 hours
- Kill bathroom humidity automatically — $50 / 16 hours
- Build a better local smart-light controller — $30 / 12 hours
- Can I beat the S&P 500 using AI in the F1 prediction market? — $5 per round / 60 minutes each / 24 active hours season (~$65 max)
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AI is changing everything. This is too powerful not to share.
I challenge myself to use AI to achieve objectives that push my abilities — and to create real-world things that have to work outside the chat window.
I’m Mauricio. Mechanical engineer. On my own time I’m starting AI Make: timed builds, real stakes, learning by doing. Not a tutorial. Not a review. Follow to see how it goes.
AI and I think it. I build it. The real world decides.