Projects
Things I built outside the lab.
All pure static HTML/CSS/JS — no frameworks, no build step. Each site is a creative project I made from scratch: tools for physicists, a poetry collection, personal essays, and education resources for anyone curious about the world.
Live websites
Four projects, all open source
AMO Toolkit
14 interactive calculators and references for atomic, molecular, and optical physics — atom library, laser-cooling guides, imaging calculators, TOF analysis, Rydberg calculator, and neutral-atom quantum-computing explainers. Built for experimentalists.
amotoolkit.com PoetrySiyahi — सियाही
A bilingual poetry collection of 104 original poems in Hindi, Marathi, and English — exploring love, longing, identity, science, and the human condition. Designed as a scrollable digital book with Noto Serif Devanagari and Playfair Display.
saumitraphatak.github.io/siyahi-poetry EssaysCurious Writings
12 personal essays written over 4+ years — on arriving in the US, graduate school, travel between Mumbai and Indiana, language, and what it means to be genuinely curious. Written in English, Marathi, and Hindi.
saumitraphatak.github.io/curious-writings EducationRealWorld Academy
A free educational website covering 11 life-skill categories that school typically ignores — personal finance, psychology, philosophy, science, geography, history, health, meditation, puzzles, books, and home skills.
saumitraphatak.github.io/realworld-academyPhilosophy
Built the same way the lab runs — from scratch.
Every project here is pure HTML, CSS, and vanilla JavaScript — no frameworks, no npm, no build pipeline. The constraint is intentional. It forces clarity: if something is hard to build without a library, it is usually also hard for a reader to understand without explanation.
All repositories are public on GitHub. Fork anything, use anything. The AMO Toolkit has a llms.txt for LLM-accessible documentation.