About
I build, study, and document systems where hardware, software, and intelligence overlap.
Author's note / inside cover
Hi, I’m Chris Cole, though online I sometimes go by macroflux: constant motion, broad systems, always chasing the next connection.
I build and study the spaces where hardware, software, and intelligence overlap—robots that sense, code that reflects, data that learns, and ideas that move beyond theory. My background spans enterprise architecture, robotics, machine learning, and creative engineering, from cognition systems and physics simulations to embedded wearables.
Rethinking the World is my lab notebook in public: research logs, experiments, failures, and what-ifs. Some projects are practical, others are philosophical, and most are both.
The common thread is curiosity about systems—digital, physical, intelligent, material—and a desire to understand them deeply enough to take them apart, build something, and see what the next question becomes.
Method / usually iterative
How I tend to work
- Build enough to learn something.
- Prefer working systems to perfect abstractions.
- Let software, hardware, and physical experiments inform one another.
- Document what worked, what failed, and what changed the question.
Areas / recurring subjects
What I explore
AI & Cognition
Agents, memory, orchestration, generative systems, and embodied intelligence.
Robotics & Physical Systems
Autonomy, sensing, mechanisms, computer vision, and connected machines.
Software & Data
Applications, APIs, telemetry, persistence, and systems integration.
Materials & Experimental Science
Nanocellulose, graphene, electrochemistry, composites, and physical experiments.
Wearables & Human–Machine Systems
Embedded sensing, ESP32-scale systems, motion, feedback, and interaction.
Ambient & Connected Computing
BLE, wireless presence, edge systems, and physical-digital environments.
How to read the publication
Projects and field entries
Projects are ideas and bodies of work I keep following. The Journal records the builds, experiments, observations, failures, and discoveries along the way.