V1 · First Light · prototype
The ESP32-CAM relay
A button, a camera, and a laptop across the room doing the thinking. Slow and not standalone — but it proved camera-plus-AI guidance could work.
Singapore · systems architect · founder @ asirive
HAZIQ
(IRSPlays) — a.k.a. Cypher's human
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01 · about the human (and the fox)
Hi, I'm Haziq. I build systems that punch above their price.
CYPHER · resident fox · CTO of vibes
the human · founder, asirive
I'm Haziq (IRSPlays) — Systems Architect, AI/IoT Engineer and Founder of Asirive, based in Singapore. I bridge high-level multimodal AI reasoning with low-level edge hardware and ambient OS-level execution.
I build accessible, high-performance systems: open-source assistive wearables co-designed with the Singapore Association for the Visually Handicapped, in-house edge language models, decentralized triage engines, on-device vision apps, and mission-critical competition infrastructure.
And yes — the fox is canon. Cypher lives here rent-free.
“Failing with Honour.”
Pain first, rest later. · Status: INNOVATING.
“I view bugs not as failures, but as necessary renovations for character.”
- SAVH-co-designed
- TKKYIA 2026 Merit Award
- XPRIZE builder
- HackerOne researcher
- Edge vision nerd
- Failing with honour
02 · the road to v3
One year. Three versions. Zero ego.
Each version exists because the last one failed at something specific — straight from the Asirive journal.
V2 · The Upgrade · prototype
The shoulder-strap brick
RPi Compute Module 5 + AI accelerator: the first real edge computer, on-device models, commodity parts. Serious hardware — but the strap never stopped fighting the user's shoulder.
V3 · Pocket Unit · current build
It disappears into a pocket
RPi 5 + Hailo-8L, dual camera on the glasses, one USB-C cable to the pocket. You stop thinking about the computer entirely. This is the build that won TKKYIA 2026.
12 Sep 2026 · aether
Introducing Aether
The in-house edge model enters the journal: ≈187M parameters, trained and run on a single AMD RX 7600 — the reason Cortex navigation can leave the cloud.
19 Sep 2026 · recognition
TKKYIA 2026 · Merit Award
Tan Kah Kee Young Inventors' Award 2026 — the highest award presented in the Student Category this year. Three students, age 15, and a year of field sessions with SAVH.
27 Sep 2026 · next
V4: from prototype to an ecosystem
Refactored software, Aether-local navigation, managed cloud infrastructure, a companion app — and glasses rebuilt from scratch in CAD. The road continues.
03 · the flagship company
Asirive
Ambient Intelligence & Hardware · asirive.com
“Human agency should not be swallowed by artificial intelligence; it should be amplified by it.”
We build ambient software and assistive hardware to double human throughput.
FLAGSHIPnavigation-first · audio-first · assistive hardware
Asirive Cortex
Go anywhere. On your own.
Audio-first spoken navigation for blind and partially sighted cane users. The cane stays in the hand — Cortex fills in what it can't feel. No screen, no hands, open-ear audio so you still hear the world. Co-designed with SAVH, $186 BOM measured, built in Singapore.
- ▸Cane-aware safety: warn only for cane-invisible overhead hazards, fast-approaching objects and visual info — never for ground clutter the cane already catches.
- ▸Dual-voice priority TTS: Katie for conversational chat, Troy for critical safety warnings, switched inside a <100ms window.
- LTA DATAMALL × YOLO VISION
- GUARDIAN SAFETY <100MS
- CO-DESIGNED WITH SAVH
- $186 BOM MEASURED
- BUILT IN SINGAPORE
one device. three versions. each one fixed a specific failure.
V1 · First Light
ESP32-CAM relay — frames sent to a laptop that did the thinking. Not standalone, but it proved camera + AI guidance works.
V2 · The Upgrade
RPi CM5 + AI accelerator. Real edge compute and commodity parts — but the shoulder-strap mount fought the user.
V3 · Pocket Unit (current)
RPi 5 + Hailo-8L, dual camera on the glasses, one USB-C to a pocket unit. It disappears — you stop thinking about the computer.
watch it walk — field recording · demo v2 ▶
REV 0.1 // IN DEVELOPMENTin-house edge language model · formerly SNAP-C1
Asirive Aether
In-house edge language model. Small by design, not small by compromise.
A ≈187M-parameter language model built from the ground up — not a stock transformer with new labels — so it can train and run on a single consumer GPU, on-prem, close to the user. REV 0.1, in development. We publish failures.
- ▸Two custom mixers alternating through the block stack: PolyMamba2 (state-space mixer, two transition orders, 16-dim state, spectral radius clamped ≤0.95) and CC-FSA (Chunk-Compressed Frequency Attention — 32-token chunks DCT-transformed, 8 of 32 frequency bins kept per head, strictly causal).
- ▸MOD Router: Mixture-of-Depths routing over 5 routing points with one shared router — easy positions skip computation entirely.
- ▸Measured on our own hardware: AMD RX 7600 (8 GB), ROCm/HIP on Windows 11, 26.30 BF16 TFLOPS sustained, 3,900–4,200 training tokens/s.
- ▸Llama-3 tokenizer (vocab 128,256), 6.55B token training target, 116 automated tests passing.
small by design — not small by compromise · we publish failures
parameters
≈187M
accelerator
RX 7600 · 8 GB
BF16 sustained
26.30 TFLOPS
train speed
3,900–4,200 t/s
token target
6.55B
tests passing
116
04 · receipts
Awards, field trials & kind words.
TKKYIA 2026 · Merit Award
19 Sep 2026Highest award presented in the Student Category this year. Tan Kah Kee Foundation with MOE & Science Centre Singapore.
A year of SAVH field sessions
2025–2026Co-designed and user-tested with the Singapore Association for the Visually Handicapped.
Team of three, age 15
2026Admiralty Secondary: Haziq (system), Irfan (form), Eryna (people). Three roles, one device.
Build with Gemini XPRIZE
2026Asirive Copartner entered the Build with Gemini XPRIZE before its retirement.
testimonials · temporary quotes, real words pending
“[PLACEHOLDER — quote from a SAVH tester about walking with Cortex. Real words go here.]”
“[PLACEHOLDER — quote from a teacher/mentor about TKKYIA or the build journey.]”
“[PLACEHOLDER — quote from Irfan or Eryna about building together.]”
05 · technical arsenal
The zero-glaze stack.
Three functional layers from silicon to cognition. No icon soup, no fluff — just what actually ships.
Layer 1 · Silicon & Rapid Prototyping
the physical world fights back
- ▸Elegoo Neptune 4 Pro — high-speed FDM mechanical iteration
- ▸Parametric CAD & tolerancing — optical mounts, snap-fit chassis, sensor brackets
- ▸Hardware telemetry — logic sniffing, bench power analysis, I2C/SPI/UART debugging
Layer 2 · Firmware, Edge & OS
the bare metal
- ▸Embedded POSIX & minimal Linux (Xubuntu) — low-overhead environments
- ▸Embedded C/C++ & Python — device drivers and sensor loop timing
- ▸Autonomous terminal agents — OpenCode, Claude Code for rapid iteration
Layer 3 · Spatial & Cognitive Engine
multimodal brains, on the edge
- ▸Quantized on-device neural models — low-latency edge vision inference
- ▸Spatial tracking pipelines — SteamVR ecosystem integration
- ▸Dual-voice interrupt TTS — <100ms hardware-switched preemption
PythonC/C++PyTorchROCmRustTypeScriptNext.jsReactThree.jsRaspberry Pi 5Hailo-8LElegoo Neptune 4 ProYOLO11nOpenCVGemini APIWebRTCWeb-AudioSupabaseSQLiteSwiftUICore MLLinuxSteamVRMCPPythonC/C++PyTorchROCmRustTypeScriptNext.jsReactThree.jsRaspberry Pi 5Hailo-8LElegoo Neptune 4 ProYOLO11nOpenCVGemini APIWebRTCWeb-AudioSupabaseSQLiteSwiftUICore MLLinuxSteamVRMCP
06 · the build pile
Projects, experiments & controlled chaos.
Tap a card for the full story. Yes, the cards are stickers too.
07 · right now
Status: INNOVATING. here's the proof.
Cortex V4 — prototype → ecosystem
Refactored software, Aether-local navigation, companion app, glasses rebuilt from scratch in CAD.
IN PROGRESSsince 27 Sep 2026Aether REV 0.1
Training toward the 6.55B token target on one RX 7600. Publishing failures as we go.
IN DEVELOPMENTupdated weeklyNRPC 2026 Platform
Holding steady for 500+ teams with real-time leaderboards.
LIVE2026 seasonFursuit Cortex — biomechatronics R&D
Responsive animatronics research. The fox is becoming hardware.
EARLY R&Dwhenever sleep permits
08 · the secret lab
Failures, toys & mascot hardware.
Failures are just renovations for character. Here lie the renovations. Also: draggable toys. Engineers need both.
sticker drawer — drag & throw them (seriously)
the renovation graveyard — root-cause post-mortems
R.I.P. these designs
† V1 optical frame mount
died: Sheared along layer lines under 1.2 Nm torque.
renovation: Reoriented print layers 45° and thickened the perimeter to 4 shells.
† Edge vision SoC thermals
died: Hit 82°C inside an unvented enclosure during continuous inference.
renovation: Integrated an aluminum passive heat spreader with channeled perimeter venting.
† V2 shoulder-strap mount
died: Ergonomics defeat: the strap fought the user's shoulder on every walk.
renovation: Killed the strap. Compute moved to a pocket unit on one USB-C cable (V3).
STATUS: EARLY R&D · MASCOT-INTEGRATED HARDWARE
Biomechatronics R&D (Fursuit Cortex)
Designing assistive biomechatronics and responsive animatronics — because if Cortex gives humans new senses, Cypher deserves some too.
- ▸Dynamic load-balancing tail assemblies
- ▸Active jaw linkages
- ▸Integrated micro-climate cooling
poke me. i dare you.
(konami code also works on your keyboard. we don't judge.)
09 · transmissions open
Let's build something loud.
Assistive tech, ambient AI, stage AV, or gloriously silly web experiments — my inbox is open and Cypher reads over my shoulder.