Designer and Machine

Designer and Machine is a monthly design-engineering gathering that became a source of people, personal-site, and interface-craft references for Kevin. private page

Designer and Machine is a monthly gathering Kevin enjoys. Flo Guo presented there, which led Kevin to flag her personal website and people list for wiki storage. private page

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The gathering belongs in the wiki as a recurring design-engineering signal source: people Kevin sees there can become references for personal sites, interface craft, tools, and design-engineering practice. private page

Claude of Tanks demo, 2026-10-29

Kevin demoed private page at the October gathering, three minutes of talk over live tank battles, alongside builds from other design engineers, including PCB simulations. The game is open source and playable at cot.kevinliu.studio. Source: X/@kevskgs thread, 2026-10-30

Soleio's reply to the demo: "The future belongs to designers who build." Source: X/@soleio, 2026-10-30

The event's format: a monthly SF dinner where five designers each demo for five minutes what they build with AI, with about 50 seats. Source: X/@ben_issen, 2026-08-03


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