$ ./welcome --community

Build.
Innovate.
Together.

A community of creators building extraordinary experiences across the stack. From silicon to software and social impact, fork, commit, deploy.

git clone projectsjoin community
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$ cat core.values

Our Values

What guides us as we build in the open

// core.values

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Innovation First

We embrace cutting-edge technologies and creative solutions to solve complex problems.

02

Collaboration

We let ideas clash and egos stay aside. Building together makes us stronger.

03

Continuous Learning

Technology evolves, and so do we. We're committed to growth and learning.

$ ls -a events

Events Hosted & Partnered

Hackathons, competitions, and workshops we co-organize or partner on.

ls -a events →
Organizerongoing

Deploy Sprint

DevOps hackathon for University of Moratuwa undergraduates

Organized by Knurdz with the Leo Club of University of Moratuwa as campus partner: a hands-on DevOps program with bootcamp, online workshop, virtual qualifier, and on-campus finale.

cat event/deploy-sprint.md →
Web Partnerongoing

MazeX 1.0

Micromouse Workshop Series & Competition

Software and cloud infrastructure partner for IEEE RAS × WIE, delivering a full-stack event platform, organizer suite, and managed hosting at mazex.knurdz.org.

cat event/mazex.md →
Web Partnerongoing

OctWave 3.0

Sri Lanka's premier undergraduate AI & Machine Learning competition

Web partner for IEEE IAS Student Branch Chapter, University of Moratuwa, delivering the OctWave 3.0 public site and digital presence at octwave.com.

cat event/octwave.md →
Organizerconcluded

OCTAII

Workshop series and live build — an 8-bit CPU from logic gates

Knurdz ran hands-on workshops and a live build where undergraduates learned digital logic from the ground up and assembled registers, decoders, and other CPU building blocks into a working 8-bit processor.

cat event/octaii.md →
$ ls -a achievements

Community Achievements

Awards, buildathons, and milestones from the Knurdz community.

ls -a achievements →
HackathonJuly 14, 2026

Proxy Maze '26: Finalist

Team Knurdz reached the Proxy Maze '26 finale after advancing through the top 25 and top 8, and won the Most Popular Team award: Torch Proxies' 14-week university hackathon for proxy-based innovation.

cat achievement/proxy-maze-2026-finalist.md →
BuildathonMay 17, 2026

Cursor 24H Buildathon 2026: n8n Track Winner

Team Knurdz 3.0 won the n8n partner track at Sri Lanka's Cursor Colombo 24 Hour Buildathon with Nexus OS, after 24 hours of building at Royal-MAS Arena.

cat achievement/cursor-buildathon-2026-n8n.md →
CompetitionJuly 7, 2026

Aurora 2026: Finalist (Top 7)

Team Knurdz Neural reached the top 7 among overall Sri Lanka inter-university teams as a finalist in Aurora 2026's Agentic AI Challenge at the University of Sri Jayewardenepura.

cat achievement/aurora-2026-agentic-ai.md →
RoboticsJuly 8, 2026

RoboRoarZ International: Finalist

Two Knurdz teams reached the finale at RoboRoarZ International in the tertiary league: a design-centred Smorphi robotics competition with teams from universities and polytechnics across Asia and the Middle East.

cat achievement/roboroarz-international-2026-finalist.md →
RoboticsApril 1, 2026

IESL RoboGames 25/26: University Category

Team Knurdz was selected among the top teams in the IESL RoboGames University Category: Sri Lanka's undergraduate robotics challenge at the University of Moratuwa.

cat achievement/robogames-2026-university-finalist.md →
HackathonMay 5, 2026

Zero to Agent: 3rd Place Globally

Knurdz placed third worldwide in Vercel's Zero to Agent build week with Origami: the highest-ranked submission from Sri Lanka in a field led by two international teams.

cat achievement/zero-to-agent-origami.md →
$ ls -a projects

Featured Projects

Our repository of innovative solutions and shipped features

ls -a projects →
maincommit a7f937a

Tantalum

Local-first Electron Arduino IDE with board detection, built-in Git, OTA deployment, snapshot recovery, cloud sync, and an agentic AI assistant—plus Web admin and Android field provisioning.

Desktop AppIoTAI+1
cat project/tantalum.md →
productioncommit 78dc070

Sonar Code Editor

A secure, real-time collaborative coding environment designed specifically for supervised exams and technical interviews.

Desktop AppWeb
cat project/sonar-code-editor.md →
release/betacommit 1f125a2

Nothing Dialer 1

A Dialer app for Nothing OS with custom glyph for outgoing and ongoing calls also.

MobileIoT
cat project/nothing-dialer-1.md →
maincommit b8f2c31

IEEE Student Branch Website

Official website for the IEEE Student Branch, University of Moratuwa: showcasing chapters, events, and community engagement for 1,000+ members. Built by Knurdz as web partner.

Web AppEducationCommunity
cat project/ieee-sb-uom-website.md →
maincommit c4e8a1f

Origami

Upload a PDF, scan a repo, or paste text, Origami streams an interactive explanation and generates a v0-powered MVP in seconds.

Web AppAIDeveloper Tool
cat project/origami.md →
maincommit a3m9x07

MazeX

Full-stack event platform for MazeX 1.0, an island-wide inter-university Micromouse competition with customizable organizer back-office and cloud infrastructure. Built and hosted by Knurdz as web partner for IEEE RAS & WIE, University of Moratuwa.

Web AppEvent PlatformRobotics
cat project/mazex.md →
$ git stash list --upcoming

Upcoming Projects

In progress, currently being crafted in our dev branches

◐development
// upcoming
commit d2e4f8a

IEEE SB Volunteer & Event Management System

A unified platform for IEEE Student Branch volunteer coordination, event operations, registrations, and committee workflows: built for student branches that outgrow spreadsheets.

Web AppEvent PlatformEducation
◐feature/marketplace
// upcoming
commit 5a2d9c9

Project Titanic

working title

A multipurpose application for university students featuring 6 core distinct features

MobileWeb
◐main
// upcoming
commit 1g6j9c9

Metal PaaS

Metal is a high-performance, AI-Native Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that revolutionizes how students and developers build for the cloud.

PaaSInfrastructure
$ ls ./gallery/ | head -4

In the wild

Hackathons, build nights, and team moments from the community.

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Hackathon

Deploy Sprint finale

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Community

Knurdz Bootcamp

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Community

Knurdz Community

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Build. Innovate. Together.

$ git remote -v --strategic

Strategic Partner

Our primary technology partner powering production-ready builds

Brainvave Software Studios

$ cat partners.json

Our Partners

Collaborating with industry leaders and communities to ship production-ready solutions and partner on events

IEEE Student Branch

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Leo Club of University of Moratuwa

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IEEE RAS (Robotics & Automation Society)

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IEEE WIE (Women in Engineering)

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IEEE IAS SBC, University of Moratuwa

Visit website

Batch 24, Faculty of Information Technology, University of Moratuwa

Visit website
cat partners.json →
$ ls -a protocols

Knurdz' Protocols

How we think, decide, and build together.

01

We let the ideas clash, never the egos.

02

We don't count heads; we consult minds.

03

Consensus isn't the absence of conflict, it's the presence of a better solution.

04

Respect the truth enough to speak it plainly.

$ ./ready_to_build.sh

Ready to Create
Something Amazing?

Join our community of builders and help shape what we ship next.

join communitygit init projectcurl -X POST /contact