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LyonIndustries

The technology work of Christopher Lyon.

Robotics · Space · Offshore · Applied AI · Est. 2014

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Agricultural Robotics: The Farm Is Becoming a Control System

A research map of agricultural automation from greenhouse cells and spray drones to autonomous tractors, RTK guidance, ISOBUS, and robot fleets: what already pays, what still breaks, and what infrastructure has to exist before autonomy becomes normal farm capacity.

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Battery Lifecycle Triage: Evidence, Authority, and Decision Risk

A research map of the evidence problem at battery handoff: what data is required at model, pack, shipment, test, and status-change level; which actors have authority; and how repair, reuse, repurposing, remanufacturing, recycling, and waste decisions fail.

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Cookbook14 min

Forge Your Own Blockchain: A First-Principles Cookbook

Build a working proof-of-work blockchain in roughly four hundred lines of Python from four cryptographic primitives - hash functions, digital signatures, Merkle trees, and proof-of-work - and run it end-to-end with real signed attestations and tamper detection.

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In-Situ Resource Utilization: The Rocks Are Ready, The Ice Is Not

Eighteen months of hardware on the surface have changed the ISRU conversation. Oxygen-from-regolith is now a TRL 6 problem. Polar water mining is still a prospecting problem. The first useful lunar plant will not be the one most people are pitching.

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About the work
01Section
Research
Long-form technical studies on robotics, space systems, offshore, and applied AI.
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White Papers
Executive-grade briefings with assumptions, numbers, and decision frames.
03Section
Cookbooks
Applied-science recipes - runnable code with the equations and reasoning underneath.

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