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Brad Dunlap 路 apps, AI video & motion

Protomota

A one-person lab for apps, AI video, motion graphics, and visual design. I'm also into home automation, and I build small robots and 3D prints and write up how they work.

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Apps

Apps I build and use myself. Jotley and PulseCanvas are free, open source, and out now. Inkspring is coming soon.

macOS 路 iOS 路 iPadOS

Jotley

Free 路 Open source 路 Available now

Talk, or play anything, and get a transcript and a summary, all on your device.

Jotley transcribes speech live and creates summaries on your device with Apple Intelligence. After Apple's model setup, it works offline. On a Mac it can transcribe audio from any app, like a call or a video, alongside your microphone. On iPhone and iPad it transcribes your voice as you speak. No audio recordings are saved.

Your notes are yours. Audio and transcripts are never sent to us or to any cloud AI, and nothing is stored on our servers. Your notes stay on your device and in your own iCloud.

  • LocalApple Intelligence
  • Offlineno internet needed
  • Yourskept in your iCloud
Download on theApp StoreDownload for Macjotley.ai
Team callSample note
Transcribing on device00:00Mac 路 system audio

Summary
  • Export bug fixed, tested at 4K
  • Onboarding screen is next
  • New icons due Thursday
macOS

PulseCanvas Studio

Free 路 Open source 路 Available now

Turn a song into a music-synced video.

Drop in a soundtrack and PulseCanvas finds the beat, splits the song into sections, and plays visuals in time with the music: hundreds of visualizers of its own plus thousands of MilkDrop effects. Shape the colors and motion, then export an MP4 in wide, portrait, phone, or square formats, up to 4K at 60 frames per second.

  • Hundredsnative visualizers
  • ThousandsMilkDrop effects
  • 4KMP4 export
Download on theMac App StoreDownload Creators Editionpulsecanvas.si

Clips from a song exported with PulseCanvas Studio.

macOS

Inkspring

Free 路 Coming soon

Find your niche, research it, and write posts and carousels in your own voice.

Inkspring is a desktop studio for research and writing. Keep your own notes and references, pull in public Instagram posts or research X, then shape it all into posts and carousels that sound like you. Connect X, Instagram, LinkedIn, or Reddit and review each post before it goes out.

Your projects, research, and drafts stay on your computer. There's no Inkspring account and no cloud sync. Pick Claude or OpenAI and use your own API key, so your brief goes straight to that provider.

The Mac version is being tested now. Windows and Linux are planned.

  • Localprojects on your computer
  • Your keyClaude or OpenAI
  • Reviewbefore anything posts
Mac download coming sooninkspring.ai
Ogre build logSample project
Research
  • NoteLeft rear wheel slips on the rug
  • XThreads on mecanum wheel slip
  • InstagramPublic posts tagged #mecanum
Brief

Collecting researchSaved on this computer 路 your own API key
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Video & motion

AI video, motion graphics, and visual design.

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AI video

Clips and short films made with AI.

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Motion graphics

Titles, loops, and visuals that move to music.

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Visual design

Art direction and design for apps and video.

SaaSpocalypse 馃敟

Claude Opus 5.5 Music Video

Watch on YouTube
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Builds

Robots, simulations, and prints. Each one has a build log or free files.

Project Ogre, an orange mecanum-wheel robot with a lidar on top
01 路 Robotics

Project Ogre

A mecanum-drive robot on a Jetson Orin Nano. Omnidirectional drive, RPLIDAR, RealSense depth, and autonomous navigation with SLAM and Nav2. Trained in Isaac Lab, documented in five parts.

  • ROS 2
  • Jetson Orin
  • SLAM
  • Nav2
  • Isaac Lab
Two SO-ARM 101 robot arms, one purple and one black
02 路 Simulation

SO-ARM 101 digital twin

A leader arm drives a 6-axis arm in Isaac Sim in real time.

  • Isaac Sim
  • LeRobot
  • ROS 2
An orange JetBot with a Jetson Orin Nano on top
03 路 Robotics

JetBot Orin

The classic NVIDIA JetBot, rebuilt for the Jetson Orin Nano with a custom chassis.

  • Jetson Orin
  • OpenCV
3D-printed leaf armor made of interlocking gray scales
04 路 3D printing

Elven Leaf Armor & other prints

Armor, tools, and decorative pieces, free to download on MakerWorld. The leaf armor alone has passed 9,200 downloads.

  • STL
  • MakerWorld
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Writing

Build logs and notes, published on Substack.

  1. May 31, 2026Project Ogre Part 5: Autonomous Navigation with Nav2
  2. May 31, 2026Project Ogre Part 4: Training a Mecanum Controller in NVIDIA Isaac Lab
  3. May 31, 2026Project Ogre Part 3: Building Maps with SLAM
  4. May 31, 2026Project Ogre Part 2: Building the Digital Twin in NVIDIA Isaac Sim
  5. May 31, 2026Project Ogre Part 1: Building a Mecanum Drive Robot with NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano
All posts on Substack
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About

Brad Dunlap

I'm Brad Dunlap, an engineer in Florida.

By day I'm a Digital Solution Consultant Associate Director at Launch by NTT Data. Protomota is where everything else happens: the apps and videos above, small robots on the living room floor, simulations of those robots, home automation around the house, and whatever is on the 3D printer this week.

I try to automate as much of my day-to-day as I can with AI SI. My robots are all small ones for now, but I'd like a real one around the house someday.

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