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Félix Ménard

Félix Ménard

Compulsive creator, educator, and entrepreneur.
Right now, most of my energy goes into Maru Audio: instruments, effects, and musical interfaces.
Built on 20 years of designing and developing digital products.

Designer, developer, and design teacher at UQAM. Open to new collaborations.

Currently exploring:

  • Audio instruments, effects, and development tools
  • Musical interfaces and interactive theory tools
  • Local-first AI systems for creative & scientific applications

Let's connect

Some side projects and experiments I maintain

I'd rather build than promote, but here are a few things I've been tinkering with. Tech moves fast, so these don't always age well — but here are some of the more recent ones.

  • Maru Audio — A home for all my audio experiments.
  • AskMRI — A full MRI research system — viewer, CLI, and 120+ models.
  • OKSLOP — An AI-generated stock photo platform.
  • Inspire.cards — 100+ card decks to spark creativity. Built for my students.
  • Kicking Lotus — A small wellness business in Quebec that I co-founded
  • Airports.guide — Guides for 300+ airports (I travel a lot and it comes in handy)
  • GuessKin — Taxonomy game (I still can't believe birds are reptiles)
  • DriveChina — Canadian guide to Chinese electric vehicles — embracing my destiny of becoming a car salesman once I'm fully automated
  • Redistributed — A collection of ideas on technology and equality. Because hype is fine, but we also need to think about this stuff
  • Ecole de Montreal — A collective embodied each year by students creating immersive and interactive experiences.

Music

Sound and code are my main focus right now. I’m bringing my audio experiments together at Maru Audio, building on projects in synthesis, MIDI, music theory, and musical interfaces.

  • AuraGrid — A MIDI interface that makes composing and understanding harmony easier.
  • Codex Music — Music theory data tools and experimental grab bag.
  • OSC1 — The initial web synthesizer got me into synthesis algorithms and audio plugin compilers.

Dev Tools

Like most developers, I spend way too much time building sophisticated systems to automate my simplest tasks. I also think about protocols that would actually be desirable (for the world), so not all of these are 100% useless :)

  • whyfull.app — A simple tool for agents to inspect and manage hard drive storage.
  • Cookskill — A simple todo tool for agentic app development.
  • Slidepig — Create slide decks easily.
  • WebLLM.org — A standard inference protocol for AI on the web.
  • isitme — Passkey auth in two lines of code.
  • MidiMama — Monitor MIDI messages using a simple website
  • Folderblog — Your filesystem is the CMS.
  • Secretdef — Environment variable validation.

Experiments

If it wasn't already clear, I love exploring different things. Here's a few more random pet-projects.

  • Raccook — A cooking blog where I compile my favorite recipes, raccoon edition
  • No Entrance — Ongoing street photography project from around the world.
  • Liveposter — Animate posters with JSON. Built for my students.
  • WeirdPress — Legacy project (~2022) on Photojournalism & AI.
  • Being Agent — A self-help resource BY and FOR AI agents.