Journal
Notes, experiments, and scattered thoughts from the lab.
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How to Build a Rugged, Long-Range UGV platform for $200 (That Actually Works)
A TIGO Build Log: Part Inspiration, Part Guidance, Part “Look What You Can Do With Almost No Money.” Back in 2014, small…
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LLOYD – Laser guided Lifter Of Your Dirt
What began as a cheap robo-vacuum with a short life span turned into a small open-source robotics project. When the stock control…
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Micro Hydrogen Generator for Weather Balloons
Hydrogen is one of the most efficient lift gases available, but also one of the most elusive. Even in multi-layer latex or…
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Murder Mystery Generator
I built this interactive web app as a playful take on generative storytelling, a murder mystery party generator that spins up unique…
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Simple Next.js + Prisma CRUD (SQL-agnostic)
Sometimes you just need a dead-simple CRUD app to poke at a database without committing to one vendor, or as a learner…
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Nano Cellulose Experimentation
Exploring fiber refinement and nanoscale structure from natural cellulose sources Nano-fibrils are the smallest threadlike structures that can be derived from natural…
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Turning a Power Window Motor into a Robot Joint (Because Why Not?)
So, here’s a weekend adventure I recently got into: I wanted a super cheap, high-torque actuator for a robot joint. Instead of…
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Building a Lightweight Caddy Log Monitor for Windows
Every now and then you hit a point where you want something simple, local, and reliable, and not another “cloud observability platform”…
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Reviving a 12-Year-Old Bluetooth Scanner – Now with BLE and a Modern UI
Back in the early 2010s, when Bluetooth meant classic and Python 2 was still the norm, I built a little experiment: a…
