Singapore
Brian Chen
I’m a high school student at Singapore American School. I build software, play drums, and do most of my useful thinking somewhere after 11pm.
I want to study engineering, probably mechatronics. The problem I actually care about is getting AI off the screen and into things that move.
Background
I learn by building things badly first. No amount of reading beats shipping something and watching it break, so most of what I know about software, and about drums, came from a version that didn’t work.
But that’s also why I keep starting projects slightly past what I can do yet. It’s the fastest way I’ve found to stop being bad at something.
- Jazz BandDrums. VP of Jazz Improv. Also in Wind Ensemble.
- Photography SocietyCo-President.
- FRC RoboticsMulti-year member.
Projects
Notei
Music notation with an AI layer. You give it a fragment and a plain-English instruction, it writes the rest around what you played. I work on the notation engine and the arrangement side.
notei.coEssay writer
A drafting tool I built for my own school writing. It keeps the research, the outline and the draft in one place instead of three tabs.
Minecraft build checklist
A small tracker for a survival world build. One page, no account, saves in the browser. I made it in an afternoon and still use it.