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Dev Log#1:
What is PhysicsBot?

PhysicsBot is a Slack bot I’m building: a physics-focused assistant that lives right inside the communication platform we already use day to day. The idea is simple: instead of students having to Google formulas, hunt for practice problems, or wait until the next class to get unstuck, they can just type a slash command and get what they need instantly. 
It runs on Node.js using the Slack Bolt framework, and right now it’s surprisingly capable for how lightweight it is. 
It comes with various commands, as seen on the screenshot, but I’m open to implementing more. Right now you can study, get quizzed on a certain topic and even convert between different units. 

Why Build This? 

Honestly, I got tired of watching students disengage the moment they hit a wall on a problem. The friction (tuff joke) of not knowing where to look or feeling like asking a question is a big deal stops a lot of them. A bot that’s already in Slack, already in the space where they’re talking to each other, lowers that barrier significantly.

Why I built a Mechanical Failure Predictor out of a plane Crash:
When Jeju Air Flight 2216 went down on December 29, 2024, killing 187 people, I did what a lot of people did, which was that I watched the news, felt awful, and moved on with my day.
Mechanical failures rarely come from nowhere. They come from signals that were there and weren’t caught or were caught and weren’t acted on. 187 people boarded a flight that data might have flagged. I wanted to understand that chain well enough to ask better questions about it.

So I built AeroFail.

It’s a web platform where engineers and/or students learning to think like engineers can input real sensor parameters from a flight system and get a predictive failure risk score across six subsystems: engine, fuel system, hydraulics, structural, avionics, and landing gear. There’s a chatbot that explains what the model found. A simulator that runs stress analysis on aircraft components. And a section documenting real accidents and what failed, why, and what a model like this might have caught. The model is imperfect. The physics are simplified. The data is synthetic for now. But the questions are real. And that feels like a place to start.