Omnia started in the last few months of my bachelor, when me and a couple of friends (Luca [link to come] in particular) finally had some time to get back into projects, thanks to the first Covid wave. Being locked at home, and not having to waste time commuting to university, I finally had time to start building something again.
It grew into a long-running effort that spanned the whole Zurich period. "Omnia" ended up being an umbrella name over several distinct subprojects, each worth its own page. This page is the high-level overview; the subproject pages below tell the specific stories. Here is my first ever podcast interview where I go more into detail on Omnia's story until then (late 2022).
Subprojects
- The ubiquitous computer (2020–2021) — the first version of Omnia, built in summer 2020 and inspired by Larry Ellison's network computer.
- Omnia Share (2021) — the pivot to something concrete: a tool to connect a PC to a screen for presentations at the Student Project House.
- ChatIoT (2022–2023) — giving ChatGPT access to IoT devices via the Web of Things: essentially MCP for IoT, before MCP existed.
- Neom's cognitive city (2023) — the gap-year push to build infrastructure for Neom's cognitive city.
- Internet Computer infrastructure (2023) — the second-half gap-year pivot: leaving ubiquitous computing behind to build tooling the Internet Computer's developer community wanted.