Clément Saillant

Embedded Systems Engineer · AI Architect · Spectacle vivant

"I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess." — Donna Haraway

I build hybrid organisms at the intersection of live performance, embedded systems, and artificial intelligence. Based in Beaujolais, France. My work fuses silicon and language — from ESP32 firmware to multi-machine LLM orchestration, from cognitive AI research to sovereign EU inference stacks — because the most interesting things happen at the boundary between bodies and machines.

Two entities, one cluster:

L'Electron Rare / FineFab — commercial hardware, firmware, IoT, and EU-sovereign AI tooling
Hypneum Lab — open, OSF-pre-registered cognitive AI research (the GENIAL framework)

Currently building — FineFab (commercial)

The FineFab manufacturing stack — Factory 4 Life monorepo, ailiance EU-sovereign LLM gateway, EuclidEDA EDA pipeline engine, and the iact-bench EU AI Act audit-grade benchmark — lives in L-electron-Rare. Most of it is private until the public release; the open-source surface is below.

agent-kiki — EU-sovereign autonomous coding agent. VS Code extension + Ink CLI, routed by default to the eu-kiki gateway with AI Act-compliant JSONL tracing.
ailiance-demo — Frontend cockpit for the LLM fleet. Public showcase + Tailscale-only admin (FastAPI + Vite + React 19).
KIKI-Mac_tunner — MLX fine-tuning toolkit for Mac Studio M3 Ultra 512 GB — distill Claude Opus reasoning into Mistral Large 123B.
KIKI-models-tuning — FineFab fine-tuning pipeline (Unsloth, LoRA, eval, registry).

"The body is not a biological given, but a techno-living political fiction." — Paul B. Preciado

Currently building — Hypneum Lab (research)

dream-of-kiki — Substrate-agnostic formal framework for dream-based knowledge consolidation in artificial cognitive systems. Paper 1 + 2.
nerve-wml — Substrate-agnostic nerve protocol for inter-WML communication: discrete neuroletters, γ/θ multiplexing, sparse learned topology. PyPI v1.8+, Zenodo DOI.
bouba_sens — Cross-modal plasticity benchmark. 13+ ADRs, multi-seed methodology, Amedi dose-response curves. TMLR-track.
micro-kiki — 35 domain-expert LoRAs on Qwen3.6-35B-A3B (MoE, 256 experts, 3B active). MLX on Mac Studio, Q4_K_M inference. Apache-2.0.
kiki-flow-research — Wasserstein-gradient-flow engine for micro-kiki self-organization.

Hardware & spectacle vivant

Le Mystère du Professeur Zacus — AI-powered escape room. ESP32-S3 + React + voice pipeline (ESP-SR, XTTS-v2, MCP hardware bridge). The skin.
ESP32_ZACUS — Zacus ESP32 firmware. C / ESP-IDF.
AV-Live — Audio-visual live performance monorepo: SuperCollider sound engine + openFrameworks oscilloscope + SwiftUI menubar launcher. GPL-3.
openDIAW.be — AI-powered music instruments for live performance. Drone, Grain, Glitch, KokoroTTS.
DMX_ESP_Stepper-controller — DMX-driven stepper motor controller for the Opéra de Montpellier. ⭐
OSC-to-I2C-PWM-Les-amis-nos-morts — OSC → I²C bridge for CORBACS animatronics. Teensy.
kxkm_clown — Multi-persona LLM chat system for live performance (KXKM).
ADB-pour-Framework-Arduino — Apple Desktop Bus protocol for Arduino / ESP32 / STM32 / Teensy.

EDA & developer tools

KiC-AI — AI-powered PCB design assistant for KiCad. Chat, analysis, local LLM. The eye.
KiCAD-MCP-Server — MCP server letting LLMs (Claude, GPT) drive KiCad directly for PCB design.
prima-cpp — Distributed LLM inference with pipelined-ring parallelism (CUDA + ZMQ). C++.
oidc2fer — OIDC gateway to the French education federation (Renater). Go.
turboquant — Near-optimal KV-cache quantization for LLM inference.

Formation

A 7-course Moodle catalog covering ESP32 + IA, FreeRTOS, KiCad, IoT, LLMs locaux, Docker self-hosting, and embedded toolchains — see the formation-* repos.

Archived but documented

Mascarade — Multi-machine agentic LLM orchestration platform. P2P mesh, 8 providers, 29 fine-tuned models. Superseded by Factory 4 Life.
Kill_LIFE — Spec-first agentic methodology for embedded systems. Methodology folded into FineFab gates S0–S3.