Peter
Orndoff

Oregon, USA, Sol III

Physics graduate and builder. Constantly iterating, learning, and building software/hardware projects.

Projects

● active   ◆ build   ◇ research

VTOL Drone

in development / current

Building a vertical takeoff and landing drone from first principles, spanning airframe design, embedded control, and practical autonomous flight systems.

VTOLembedded systemscontrolsairframe

Engrad: AI Memory

launched / 2026

Experimented with Ebbinghaus-style decaying memories for AI agents, with cross-session recall, semantic retrieval, and retention-inspired scoring.

PythonMCPFastAPIsentence-transformers

Basalt Logic

live / 2026

Experimenting with AI voice agents. Built a front/backend platform for AI voice agent automation for business deployment.

FastAPIPostgreSQLRetell AITwilioStripe

Datsun 280ZX Build

build / 2025

Full mechanical and electrical restoration of a Datsun 280ZX, combining hands-on fabrication, diagnostics, and long-horizon systems work.

automotiverestorationfabricationdiagnostics

Moriarty

research / 2024-2025

Python model placing supermassive binary black holes as tracers of the underlying cosmological dark matter distribution using CLASS and Lambda-CDM cosmology.

PythonCLASSLambda-CDM

HPC Cluster

deployed / 2024

GPU-accelerated research compute for the Hazgrav Astrophysics group at Oregon State, supporting distributed cosmological simulation workflows.

LinuxRayCUDAconda

gw_sky

research / 2024

Visualization framework for the gravitational-wave background from supermassive binary black hole systems as observed by pulsar timing arrays.

PythonNumPyHealpyPTA analysis

Info:

I graduated from Oregon State University in 2024 with a B.S. in Physics, alongside minor coursework in computer science and mathematics.

  • IPTA Astrophysics Conference, Sexton Center for Astrophysics, Italy
  • IPTA Astrophysics Computational Workshop, Milano-Bicocca University, Italy
  • NANOGrav Conference, University of British Columbia, Canada
  • Establishing Multimessenger Astronomy Interdisciplinary Training, Vanderbilt University
  • NANOGrav Computational Workshop, Oregon State University