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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…

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…

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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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” that requires half a DevOps pipeline just to know when your proxy throws a…

Posted October 14, 2025

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 local Bluetooth scanner that picked up nearby devices and sent their data to a…

Posted October 12, 2025

Building a Unity-Based Simulator for a Differential-Drive Robot

Part 1 – The Virtual Rover If you’ve been following my projects, you know I like building the real stuff first and simulating it later—but this time I flipped the script. Before a single wheel touches…

Posted October 9, 2025

Arduino Stepper Motor Control for a 3D Printed Cycloidal Drive Robot Arm Joint

I’ve been working on a large robot project for a while now, and throughout the process, I kept hearing more and more about 3D-printed cycloidal drives. If you’re not familiar, these are high-torque, precision gear systems…

Posted February 9, 2025

Service Process Studio – Working with Data Type Issues with Attribute Mapping

In previous posts about Salesforce Service Process Studio, I’ve explored strategies for building unified, reusable connectors for Service Process Studio projects. A reusable approach can be a gamechanger, making it easier to create low-code solutions, reduce…

Posted January 28, 2025