Engineering, Code and Thought Experiments
I wanted to see how far an ESP32-C3 could go as a low-power local edge node, so I added BLE, an HC-05…
A TIGO Build Log: Part Inspiration, Part Guidance, Part “Look What You Can Do With Almost No Money.” Back in 2014, small…
What began as a cheap robo-vacuum with a short life span turned into a small open-source robotics project. When the stock control…
So, here’s a weekend adventure I recently got into: I wanted a super cheap, high-torque actuator for a robot joint. Instead of shelling out a loads of money on specialty motors or, like previous projects, spend…
Posted October 29, 2025Every 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, 2025Back 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, 2025Part 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, 2025I’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, 2025In 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