Projects
Side projects by Haider Ali: qecgen quantum datasets, KCL Maths (used by over 70% of KCL Informatics), Otto, WiFi Vision, 4D hyperfractals and more.
Quaternion hyperfractals
2024 ·
Haider Ali's algorithms to compute and render 4D quaternion hyperfractals, rendered over two weeks on 8 RTX 4090s and sponsored by Fox Renderfarm.
qecgen — datasets for quantum decoders
Aug–Sep 2026 ·
qecgen, by Haider Ali, is an open-source generator of reproducible surface-code quantum error correction datasets for benchmarking decoders.
Otto — an assistant that rings
Jun–Aug 2026 ·
Otto, by Haider Ali, is a self-hosted AI assistant on WhatsApp whose alarms really ring on your phone, run by an OpenAI agent with 27 tools.
KCL Maths
Apr 2026 → ·
KCL Maths, built by Haider Ali, is a free learning platform for every first-year KCL AI & CS module, used by over 70% of the Informatics cohort.
PantryPal
2025 → ·
PantryPal, by Haider Ali, is an AI-powered recipe app built end to end: Flutter, a serverless TypeScript backend on Google Cloud, and subscriptions.
WiFi Vision
Jun–Aug 2026 ·
WiFi Vision, by Haider Ali, tracks several people moving through a room from WiFi signals alone, using a mesh of ESP32 nodes. No cameras, no wearables.
SO-101 Studio
Sep 2026 ·
SO-101 Studio, Haider Ali's toolkit for KCL Robotics, calibrates, teleoperates, records, trains and deploys imitation-learning policies for the SO-101 arm.
Pose-driven robot arm
Sep 2026 ·
A four-servo ESP32-C5 robot arm built by Haider Ali that you steer with your own arm and hand through a webcam, or from a keyboard demo console.
Minecraft in UE5
2024 ·
Haider Ali recreated Minecraft in Unreal Engine 5 with C++, extending redstone with improved electrical systems, logic gates and automation.
catline
Aug 2026 ·
catline, by Haider Ali, is a zero-dependency status line for Claude Code: usage meters beside an ASCII cat that panics as the context window fills.
UniCircle
May 2026 ·
UniCircle, by Haider Ali, is an MVP events board for London university societies: verified reps post events, students filter them, no account needed.
KCL Robotics — competitions
2025 → ·
Haider Ali is Head of Competitions at KCL Robotics (UKSEDS Mars Rover, Unibots UK, RoboWars) and leads around ten in the UKSEDS Olympus Rover Trials.
APOLLO — A-Level CS tutor
2025 ·
APOLLO, by Haider Ali, is an AI tutor mapped to the full OCR A-Level Computer Science specification, with learning modes and progress tracking.
Othello — three implementations
2025 ·
Haider Ali built Othello three times, in Python with Tkinter, Python with PyGame and C++ with Raylib, on a configurable 4×4 to 12×12 board.
JARVIS AI assistant
2024 ·
JARVIS, by Haider Ali, is a multimodal desktop voice assistant in Python: hot-word speech, screen and webcam vision, web search and Spotify control.
Hand tracking
2024–26 ·
Haider Ali's MediaPipe hand-tracking builds: a two-handed gesture mouse, hand-played Fruit Ninja and Pong, a phone-use detector and the handfx study.
College robotics team
2022–23 ·
Haider Ali founded and led his college's robotics team, from budget and labs to the full robot build, and placed 2nd at a VEX Robotics regional tournament.