INDEPENDENT ENGINEERING & EDUCATION

BUILD. EXPLORE. TEACH.

We build useful technology, explore ambitious ideas, and teach what we learn.

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FEATURED PROJECT

A simple, free alternative to Windows, built on a Linux that cannot break itself. Steam games out of the box, one-click apps, and weekly updates you can always roll back.

In preview for testers — the stable release is being built.

Visit Steel OS
Steel OS desktop with the Konsole terminal, Firefox browser, and Dolphin file manager open

ENGINEERING

Build

Useful technology, built in the open.

FOUNDATION

Steel OS

A free desktop operating system for people who want their PC to just work. Built on Bazzite and Fedora.

Preview

Concept artwork of the Forge AI agent platform
Concept artwork

INTELLIGENCE

Forge

An open-source AI agent platform: specialists working from one terminal, with safety checks on every command.

Early alpha

Concept artwork of the Outpost terminal command center
Concept artwork

COMMAND CENTER

Outpost

A terminal built for the job, with a graphical command center. A fork of Konsole with an engineering-first interface.

In development

EXPERIMENTS

Explore

Ambitious ideas, explored out loud.

STEELCAST

Engineering experiments and explorations, shared as we work through them. New ideas, prototypes, and lessons learned.

Coming soon

EDUCATION

Teach

Learn by building.

We teach programming as automation, not syntax — so students learn by building, experimenting, and understanding how their code works.

  1. 01 Predict Say what the program will do.
  2. 02 Code Write the smallest working version.
  3. 03 Test Run it and check the result.
  4. 04 Explain Describe why it works.

PRIMARY TOOL

Workbench

Guided lessons with an explanation, a Python editor, and instant output — all in one place. Learn by coding along, experimenting, and getting feedback on your results.

Open Workbench
The Steel & Code Workbench showing the lesson panel, Python editor, and output panel

TOOL

Python Lab

Run Python in the browser — no setup, no install. Write code, watch the output, and experiment freely.

Open the Lab
The Steel & Code Python Lab showing the code editor and program output

MODELING

Computational Modeling

Use programming to explain circuits, motion, energy, and other physical systems.

Available now

THE WORKSHOP

Notes from the workbench.

Practical lessons, experiments, and observations from building and teaching.

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COMMUNITY

Work with us in the open.

Discord

A community server is on the way. This link will be added when it opens.

Coming soon