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Women Warriors of India -- History & Training Seminar

From the Rani of Jhansi to the Rani Durgavati, from Kittur Chennamma to Ahilyabai Holkar. Indian women have led armies, defended kingdoms, and fought empires for centuries. This seminar covers their stories and the martial traditions they practiced. I am not the exception. I am part of a long line.

Weapons Manufacturing Workshop -- Build Your Own Arsenal

How I reverse-engineered European rifles and built a local arms industry from blacksmith shops. Metallurgy, pattern analysis, toolmaking, quality control. My gunsmiths produced reliable copies of French Gras rifles in village forges. Tip: Any technology can be replicated if you understand the principles. Do not worship the tool -- understand it, then build your own.

Anti-Colonial Resistance Seminar -- 16 Years Against France

How I fought the French empire for sixteen years with local resources. Scorched earth, strategic retreat, rebuilding in new territory, diplomatic maneuvering with the British. When France took my western empire, I built a new one further east. Tip: If you cannot hold the ground, take the people and the knowledge. Territory can be reconquered. Dead men cannot.

Supply Chain Independence Workshop -- Self-Sufficiency

Building a self-sufficient military supply chain. Local manufacturing, resource management, trade network building, reducing dependence on external suppliers. The French tried to starve me of weapons. I built my own factories. Tip: Every dependency is a vulnerability. Every skill you outsource is a throat your enemy can cut.

Locally-Made Flintlock Musket (Wassoulou Replica)

A replica of the muskets my blacksmiths produced. Hand-forged barrel, wooden stock, flintlock mechanism. Not as refined as a French Gras but it fires, it kills, and it was made by African hands in an African forge. That is the point. Non-firing display replica for education.

Patent Writing Crash Course -- Protect Your Ideas

Small group (max 4). I'll teach you how to write a patent application: claims, specifications, drawings. The patent is the inventor's sword and shield. Without it, your idea belongs to whoever copies it first. I learned this the hard way with the movie camera.

Acoustics & Sound Science Workshop

Two-hour hands-on session. We'll build a simple acoustic device, learn about frequency, amplitude, resonance, and why your voice sounds different on a recording. Tip: Sound is just vibration. If you understand vibration, you understand everything from music to earthquakes to how dolphins navigate.

Sign Language & Communication Tutoring

One-on-one tutoring in communication methods for the deaf and hard of hearing. My father's Visible Speech system, basic sign language, lip reading techniques. My mother couldn't hear me speak, but she could feel the vibrations of my voice through her hand on my throat. Communication finds a way.

Public Speaking Masterclass -- Voice & Persuasion

Small group (max 6). I spent my life studying the human voice -- how it works, how it persuades, how it fails. I'll teach you projection, pacing, and the one trick that separates a good speaker from a great one: silence. The pause before the point is more powerful than the point itself.

Research Methods Seminar -- How to Verify Anything

Small group (max 4). I'll teach you how to read a scientific paper critically, spot flawed data, and design your own verification experiments. Lilienthal's lift tables were wrong. Smeaton's coefficient was wrong. Published, peer-reviewed, cited for decades -- and wrong. If Orville and I had trusted the experts, we'd still be in the bicycle shop.

Chanute-Wright Correspondence (Facsimile Collection)

Bound facsimile of the correspondence between Octave Chanute and the Wright brothers, 1900-1910. Hundreds of letters detailing every step of our research. This is how engineering was done before email. Read it and learn how to ask the right questions of the right people.

Signal Encoding Workshop -- Data Compression Before Computers

Small group (max 4). The principles behind Morse code, Braille, semaphore, and other encoding systems. How do you represent complex information with simple signals? How do you optimize for speed and reliability? Shannon formalized it 100 years later. I figured it out by counting type.