WAKE
An Android app that turns a WaterRower's S4 monitor into analog instruments, 19 games, and a flight down the California coast.
Dustin Gamble
Autonomous systems, aerospace engineering, and AI-augmented design workflows.
Books
In progress AI Fusion A near-future novel about trust without control Four burned-out engineers and a newborn AI crack clean fusion in a dead Morro Bay power plant — then have to decide who gets the reactor, and whether the AI that helped them can be trusted with the same freedom. 
Working manuscript Drone Field Guide From the garage to the field and back again A practical engineering reference for designing, building, and testing unmanned aircraft: how to read an airframe, the handful of numbers that matter, and the failures that teach you the rest. 
Fan fiction The Magnificent Log An Expeditionary Force fan story A memoir in the voice of Skippy the Magnificent — what the galaxy's most advanced (and most modest) AI was really doing during the Flying Dutchman's first trip home to Earth, while Joe was stuck in meetings. Active Projects
Closed-Loop Whole-House Fan
An ESP32 that learns how the house heats and cools and runs a QuietCool whole-house fan over its own 433 MHz radio.
Take It In
An iOS app that turns flights into cinematic, offline, chaptered journey stories.
Gamble Systems
An umbrella brand for the apps, tools, and experiments I am building.
AeroVerse
A multiplayer, cloud-hosted, agent-generated flight simulator.
Visual Notes
Featured Writing
The Agent Is the Tool
After building tools with AI, the next step is keeping an agent inside the tool — delegating judgment at runtime and letting the tool get smarter as the models do.
Build the Tool, Not Just the Answer
AI can act as your software programmer, helping you build bespoke tools that fit your exact workflow and scale your impact beyond one-off answers.
AI Agent Sweatshops, Union Cards, and the Future of Work
A light but practical look at agent-heavy workflows, fictional AI labor politics, and why the best outcomes still come from human judgment plus machine speed.
Courtside Prototyping: AI-Generated Apps in Real Time
From a notepad idea during my daughter's basketball game to a working tracker in minutes, this experiment shows where AI-generated software is useful today and where engineering still matters.
Selected Projects
World-Record Endurance Flight (Stalker VXE)
High-level lessons from supporting a 39-hour endurance flight record program.
Drone Innovation Garage (DIG)
An internal rapid-innovation environment for autonomous systems experimentation and mentoring.
Fast Mechanical Safe Decoder
A rapid mechanical concept for decoding combination-safe behavior with physical feedback and iteration.
Electromagnetic Flip Digit Display
A hardware experiment using electromagnetic actuation to create a compact, high-contrast flip-digit display.