I am blind or visually impaired: the story in one minute

Engineering, the build log

What changed, and when.

Each entry is a real change in the repository's own history, newest first. The longer story, with the reasoning behind each choice, lives in BUILDLOG.md and DECISIONS.md in the repository.

The log

The last forty changes.

  1. The opening story film: five cuts, reviewed beat by beat, first on the home page

  2. The board's second round: nothing can render invisible, the map speaks only when driven, and every fact holds

  3. The visual restoration: the film plays, the living body map hero returns, three recorded demonstrations, the parts grid, and the build dashboard

  4. The verified toolkit, the hard milestones, and the founder's sight corrected everywhere

  5. The subtraction rebuild: five beats, three doors, one kit one person, and Feel it

  6. The mobility aid decision: built to replace, proven at a milestone

  7. Ask for kits, not money: the Support rebuild, the supporters wall, the buildability promise, and the open engineering depth

  8. BUILDLOG: the Vercel project is wired to GitHub; note the unpushed laptop deployment

  9. README: merges to main deploy on their own through the Vercel Git connection

  10. The opening asks: three doors into the site

  11. Two views one story: the viewer story spine, the engineer record, Support, the build path, and the parts list

  12. Set up cloud sessions for the whole pipeline

  13. Keep the film's Remotion project out of the site's type check

  14. Panel fixes: record wording, simulator, accessibility, hardware

  15. Panel round 2 fixes: record wording across the site, running mode on pace, accessibility, hardware corrections

  16. Panel round 2 fixes: record wording across the site, running mode on pace, accessibility, hardware corrections

  17. Panel round 1 fixes: record based latency, simulator and platform on the record, hardware corrections, film status section

  18. Deploy ignore list covers the whole tree; render outputs stay out of git

  19. Part renders as WebP; the turntable frames leave the site folder

  20. The site rebuilt on the engineering record: record pages with figures drawn from the files, the KiCad belt hub schematic, OpenSCAD parts rendered in Blender, version 2 and research and platform pages on the record, the simulator on the record's twenty motors, a skip link and main landmarks

  21. The engineering record installed as docs/ and the ten corrections applied across the site

  22. The first generation kit, photographed: the reference for every picture of it

  23. The film's decisions note and the deploy ignore list

  24. The launch film: the founder's voice cloned for every line, the graphics as Remotion compositions in the site's theme, the cut on the words, captions and audio description, and the home page player, shown once every shot is real footage

  25. The decisions note records the founder offset as rendered

  26. The founder section lands under its own line in the short cuts

  27. The launch video finished: three cuts with captions, audio description, chapters, transcripts, and the vertical; the decisions and the morning report

  28. The launch video: recorders for the walks, the body map, the pages, and the app; the build with captions, chapters, audio description, and the vertical; decisions and the morning draft

  29. The launch video's scripts, captions, and decisions; Playwright for the site recordings

  30. Untrack the native app and its dependencies on main; they belong to the overnight branch

  31. The opening slides return on every visit; no country or city named: the kit was born at a blind support centre and tested at TEKNOFEST

  32. Home figure: the whole body stays in frame with the braces on, a taller scene, full device resolution

  33. Light mode: alert and accent inks for the smallest labels in the simulator

  34. Light mode: coral and bright blue darken a step, ON and OFF labels at full strength

  35. Light mode: the muted ink darkens a step so small text passes the enhanced contrast on every panel

  36. Light mode contrast: indigo carries pressed and primary states, HUD chips in ink, rail labels at full strength, the mapper's pressed label in ink

  37. Light theme by default; the exoskeleton on by default and drawn on the mapper and the simulator with a hold at drop-offs; made in Afghanistan, tested in Turkey on every page; security headers and the audit report

  38. Research: close the pieces list correctly after removing the mobility aid

  39. The mobility aid is out of the parts; the exoskeleton is a direct requirement named everywhere; every piece says where it sits; a pressable figure of the kit; how it works leads engineering; the story says my eyes

  40. Research opens with the pieces of the kit and the reason for each; the camera is the wearer's choice, said on research, platform, the engineering announcement, and the note; milliseconds spelled out