Field note / 01 / Space

How can a distant mission feel closer?

Conversation, artificial intelligence, and storytelling meet in a companion created for ESA’s Hera mission

Project case study Hera Companion ↗ More about my work →

Field note / 02 / Cycling & places

What can a ride reveal about a place?

Cycling is one of the ways I learn a landscape, from the Western Alps to the roads of Salento

Personal context Away from the screen ↗ Read my story →

Field note / 03 / Making

What happens when an idea leaves the notebook?

Ordinary problems become opportunities to build. An old laptop becomes a home server; a prototype becomes the next question

Collected project notes Lapserve: a laptop’s second life ↗ Explore things I’ve made →

Field note / 04 / AI

Could a machine notice how we feel?

Experiments with perception, learning, and the things we ask machines to understand. This curious creature marks a path into AI

From the archive · prototype Pyna — the mood reader ↗ Explore the AI archive →

I’m PeppeI build with curiosity

My work moves between software, AI, design, and storytelling. Away from the screen, I read places by bicycle—and I’m learning what it means to build ambitious things from home

A painting that grows with me
Explore the garden
An illustrated Hera spacecraft observing Didymos and Dimorphos and their orbital paths

On the workbench / AI × Space × Design

Hera Companion: a mission you can join

The AI-enhanced digital experience that turns ESA’s Hera mission into a conversation, a crew role, and an explorable spacecraft

Explore the experiment

Pages from the notebook

Recent notes

Open the notebook ↗
2026
Writing / Work in progress

Hera with us: planetary defence in Presicce-Acquarica

 2024
Writing / Documented

What my first website could not say

 2023
Writing / Documented

Helping with the family network from afar

The person behind the work

Building an ambitious life from Salento

I’m Giuseppe—Peppe to my friends. I’m a maker and product thinker building a creative, internationally connected life from my hometown. Technology, cycling and bringing people together are ways I’m creating more reasons to live here, return and reconnect.

A little about me ↗