Engineering 🗺️
Everything else
48+ repos · side quests
By Arush Bansal
The rest of the garage
Not every project deserves a landing page. Some are learning spikes (Android tutorials, Python challenges), some are club infrastructure (Aeromodelling pages), and some are serious bets — FeynmanAI for teaching with AI, opportunity portals for surfacing programs, and Agentic-LLM-For-Optimizers for pushing LLMs into numerical workflows.
Recent activity clusters around applied AI apps and design experiments — repos like WhatsYourAiApp and Deep-Design-1 show where attention is now: fast prototypes, shared components, and shipping in public.
Repos are receipts — they show what you actually tried.
Themes in the backlog
- 01
FeynmanAI
Explaining concepts in plain language — AI as a tutor that forces understanding, not just answers.
- 02
Opportunity portals
Aggregating programs, deadlines, and fit so students spend less time searching and more time applying.
- 03
Optimizers & agents
Agentic-LLM-For-Optimizers and related work — using models to navigate complex search spaces with guardrails.
Side projects are how you practice judgment before the stakes get real.
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