Founder, LUMI · MechEng, Northumbria

Ben Hudson

Engineer. Founder. I build hardware, software, and AI.

I don't stop at building things. I ship them and take them to market.

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  • LUMIPaying customers, zero ads
  • Cobham-Ultra1 of 2 engineering scholars
  • Self-taughtPCB · firmware · CAD
01 Flagship

LUMI

Custom addressable lighting for cars.

Paying customers through word of mouth alone. No advertising. Now expanding into motorbikes.

How it got here: following demand

  1. 01

    Product

    Sold a lighting product.

    No demand Pivoted
  2. 02

    Venues

    Installation, trialled in bars and nightclubs.

    Low demand Pivoted
  3. 03

    Cars

    Custom installs for car owners.

    High demand Doubled down
  4. 04

    Motorbikes

    The next market, now underway.

    Expanding
02 Credentials
Scholarship

Cobham-Ultra UK Undergraduate Scholarship

Awarded to only 2 engineering students.

Programme

King's Trust Enterprise Programme

Accepted.

Funding

SWEF Grant

Competitive funding, won.

Academic

70%

Average in foundation year.

03 Ventures

LUMI

Trading

Custom addressable car lighting. Paying customers, growing by word of mouth, expanding into motorbikes.

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Crosshair

In development

An AI-native CRM. Building it with a co-founder.

04 Engineering

Linkage Robot Gripper

A working linkage-driven gripper, designed in CAD and printed.

  • Fusion 360
  • 3D printing
  • Mechanisms

Smart Traffic System

Sensor-driven traffic control. Photoresistors feed an Arduino. Group project.

  • Arduino
  • Sensors
  • Team build

Self-taught stack

  • PCB design
  • ESP32 firmware
  • Fusion 360 CAD
  • 3D printing
05 Software & AI

FIT

Open source

Offline-first fitness and training tracker. Works in the gym with no signal. Built because commercial apps were too restrictive.

  • Built in a day
  • Offline-first
Open FIT

Planner

Open source

A personal day and week scheduler.

  • Built in a day
Open Planner

partfinder

Market-intelligence tool built on the Amazon Reviews dataset.

  • Data
  • Market intelligence

Aegis

My first software project. An internal tool that helped run early LUMI.

  • Internal tooling
06 Contact

Let's talk.