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Yusei Yoshioka

Yusei Yoshioka / Representative of SpaceFamilyCompany and Director of Space Gadget Laboratory

In rural areas, there is a lot of work that IT could make easier. What's missing isn't technology, but someone nearby to consult. I started the Lab to become that “someone nearby.”

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The kind of person behind this

Building while traveling

I live in a Honda N-VAN kei van with Tom the white tabby cat, moving my base from Miyazaki to Nagasaki, Osaka, Chiba and Niigata. I share videos of Tom playing outdoors on YouTube.

Watch the YouTube channel “かしこねこトム” (Clever Cat Tom)

Working in the field

Warehouses, renovating old houses, transporting robots. I also do work in overalls, on site. That is where I learned how hard it is to run things on paper and phone calls.

Use it myself before handing it over

I turn my own problems into tools, use them every day to check them, and only then release them. Keeping to that order, I have developed 17 gadgets.

Explaining in plain words

I am writing the book “Learning IT Through Society”, which explains IT by comparing it to how society works. Vol. 1 is “A Program Is a Company.”

  • Phone apps (Android, Flutter)
  • Web apps (React, TypeScript)
  • Servers (Node.js, Python, PostgreSQL)
  • Chat bots (Discord)
  • AI integration (Claude and others)
  • Voice and streaming (OBS, speech recognition, text-to-speech)
  • Modifying in-vehicle devices and tablets
  • Interviewing about your work and writing procedure manuals
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The Lab's rule

Whether it gets used is decided by the details.

The position of a button, a single line in a notification, the effort of moving from paper. Tools that go unused lose on the details.

Shall we talk, just once?

Consultation and quotes are free. We reply the same day to within 3 days.

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