PROJECTS

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Making a Voice Assistant – part 2

  • October 26, 2023
I have made some progress with my Python voice assistant. I have it running on a Raspberry Pi Zero W with an Adafruit Voice Bonnet. The code doesn’t run as…
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Making a Voice Assistant – part 1

  • September 18, 2023
I use my Alexa Echo devices daily for various purposes. While I find it incredibly useful, Alexa does have limitations, and it would be great if it were more customizable.…
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LAMP Server

  • September 9, 2023
I just finished turning a Raspberry Pi into my own personal LAMP server (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP). I used hardware I had lying around, including a vintage amber monitor (from…
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Commodore 64

  • September 7, 2023
I consider myself something of a videogame historian: I like to collect and restore vintage computers, and then run original games on the original hardware. One of my recent adventures…
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BEAM Headbot

  • December 3, 2022
This is a simple BEAM robot (BEAM is an acronym for Biology, Electronics, Aesthetics, and Mechanics, and it describes a style of robotics developed by Mark Tilden in the late…
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Data Analysis of the MechanicalKeyboards Subreddit

  • May 13, 2022
Developers tend to take their keyboards seriously. I have been using classic buckling spring IBM Model M computer keyboards since I first began programming. These are great to type on,…
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R.O.B. Robot Hack

  • January 7, 2022
This was a fun electronics project that I did a few years ago. I hacked an old Nintendo NES R.O.B Robot to be controllable from a PC via a webpage…