Pensées

Stories and reflections outside the lab, many of them written for curious kids.

Making My Own Street Fighter Game A childhood story about the game I never finished A true story of growing up in Cameroon, falling in love with Street Fighter II, and trying to build a fighting game in Pascal—with no internet, scanner, or programming classes. October 2026 Building My Own Car A childhood story about turning scraps into a car How a group of young builders in Cameroon inspired me to make a car from discarded materials—and to discover the joy of engineering. October 2026 The Walking Doll A true story about a toy with a heartbeat A walking doll, a swinging heart, and how robots learned to walk. October 2026 The Matryoshka Universe A journey from galaxies down to atoms The universe is built like a set of nesting dolls, from galaxies down to atoms, and the biggest doll made all the smaller ones. October 2026 The Tree of Life How every living thing belongs to one big family The secret hiding in plain sight, and how life changes: from wolves to poodles, Darwin's finches, DNA, and our family tree. October 2026 The Day My Plane Crashed A true story about learning to fly How a broken model plane taught me the science of flight: thrust, drag, lift, weight, and the airfoil. September 2026 The Magic of Artificial Intelligence The secret is in the roads How a brain learns, how a machine learns, and how to keep your own brain in charge. September 2026

Personal writing. Views are my own.