Sam Sulaimanov - Co-founder at Octanis Instruments, building edge AI sensor systems and custom hardware for research institutions and industry.

This is my personal outlet for projects and ideas - a digital private island where I show and tell things that either made the cut or didn't. A place for my brain to rabbit hole.

Started as an IT apprentice at PwC in Zürich, founded a software company during that time (2009) where we made 100 websites for different clients with custom WordPress themes. After finishing top of canton, went to EPFL for electrical engineering. During studies, co-founded Octanis Association to build hands-on projects like an autonomous solar-powered robot for Antarctica. Later co-founded Octanis Instruments (2018) to turn these experiments into real products.

Email: sam@bitmorse.com

Selected Work

• Bearing failure detection on MAX78000 - condition monitoring with CNN accelerator
• Robot dog pose estimation with ROS2 - appearance-based navigation
• Wearable light spectrometer - circadian rhythm studies
• Wireless weighing scales with RFID - barn owl monitoring
• Smart camera system - predictive maintenance
• Bluetooth speaker in mouth-blown glass

Projects

• Octanis Association - Antarctic rover and EPFL makerspace (archived)
• Hackuarium - Biotech hackerspace
• ZimTM - Automatic camera on container ship