Leo Camacho

Building technology for the problems that matter.

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Work, experiments, wins, scars

Stories worth telling

A dive through my work. AI communities, robotics, strange hackathon sprints, and useful tools that shipped into the world.

Plate · 01REC
Dual-pair teleoperation system with custom scaled robotic arms
Plate / 01
Teleop rig / wide shot
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01Dissertation · 2025—26

Teleoperated Robotics

SOTA Sensorless Force Feedback on commodity servos.

Designed, built and implemented a robotic system with custom 2x 3D-printed followers and 91% obstacle detection. Open-source at ~$3k total — a tenth of the nearest clinical rig.

RoleResearcher / Builder
OutputPaper + Hardware
Cost~$3,000
Detection91%
Read the paper
Plate · 02REC
Packed lecture theatre at an EdinburghAI event sponsored by Anthropic
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Anthropic intro / 25-26 launch
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02Community · 2023—Present

EdinburghAI

Edinburgh's Premier AI society, from scratch.

Co-founded with Pascual. 1,000+ members, workshops I wrote myself, speakers from DeepMind and Anthropic, and an annual AI Expo with a £1,000 prize pool.

RoleCo-founder
Members1,000+
FlagshipAI Expo
Prizes£8,000+
Meet the community
Plate · 03REC
The 20-hour company team celebrating their hackathon win in Stockholm
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20HR.co team / post-launch
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03Hackathon · 2025

The 20-Hour Company

Built, launched and sold a company in a weekend.

Built, launched, and sold a company in under 20 hours at a hackathon in Stockholm. The20hr.co got acquired by Revel before we even left Sweden.

RoleCo-founder
Duration20 hours
OutcomeAcquired
BuyerRevel
Watch the story
Plate · 04REC
Live demo of the speech-to-whiteboard AI at a Granola hackathon
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Granola hack / build day
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04Hackathon · 2025

Speech-to-Whiteboard

Realtime speech, live diagrams.

A realtime AI speech-to-whiteboard built at a Granola hackathon. ~50k views on YouTube and featured on OpenAI for Startups' LinkedIn.

RoleBuilder
EventGranola Hack
Views~50K
FeaturedOpenAI
Watch the demo
Plate · 05REC
Team photo at V7's London office
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V7 / pints with the team
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05Timeline · 2018—Present

Everywhere else

Seven years of building elsewhere.

V7, JPMorgan, Isara Labs, ITUS, and more. The full timeline of everywhere I've worked and what I built there.

RoleVarious
Companies5+
NotableV7, JPM
Span7 years
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