Lab notes

Building Syqei in public.

Short notes from the build. What we tried, what students told us and what we changed. Newest first.

Coming up16 November 2026

Demo Night

Taleena pitches Syqei to investors at UWA Venture Demo Night. Everything on this site is part of getting ready.

SQ-LOG-04October 2026

Rebuilding the site around missions

We rebuilt syqei.com for the new model. Missions for secondary schools, run by teachers, built from research. We used the mission's own computer vision ideas as the design, so the site marks things the way a detector would.

SQ-LOG-0324 September 2026

Our first pilot

52 Year 9 students from two Perth schools. 48 of 51 liked or loved it. One school was cooler than the other, and one student said it could be more interactive. That was fair, so Mission 001 is now hands-on from the first minute.

Read the full results

SQ-LOG-02September 2026

Filming with the researchers

We interviewed Dr Jennifer Kelley and Dr Annie Jessop about the moth that fools computers. Students meet them inside the mission.

SQ-LOG-01August 2026

Picking the first mission

We had dozens of ideas. We picked one small, strange, visual question. Can a flat moth wing fool a computer into seeing 3D? Everything else waited.

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