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A Sun Following Chair for my Cat

I wanted to do a quickish project over my time off for the holidays. I had a recently broken a coffee grinder, and it inspired...

Jonathan
29 Dec 2020

Icosahedron Travel Globe

Well it’s been awhile since we’ve been able to travel, so to feel better I decided to make a memento to the big trip Maria...

Jonathan
21 Jun 2020

Building a TIS100 Node for an FPGA

It’s been awhile since I used an FPGA toolchain, so I was looking for a good project to use as a refresher.

Jonathan
24 Feb 2020

Fire Emblem Lights

As gift for my wife’s birthday I wanted to make something to celebrate our shared time with the game Fire Emblem Three Houses. I was...

Jonathan
14 Jan 2020

Fog of War Game

I made a tactics game with a gimmick of espionage in the LibGDX Java framework. This is probably the most complete game I’ve put together....

Jonathan
17 Dec 2019

Wreath Pixel Display

This idea was based on the concept of making a “Sound Catcher” pixel display. I’ve been wanting to make this for a long time, but...

Jonathan
04 Jul 2017

Magic Box

A gift I made for Maria. Uses mana rocks to unlock a treasure.

Jonathan
17 Jan 2017

Gwyndolin Costume

My 2016 Halloween costume. I made the mask, and Maria made the dress! Almost everything was handmade except for one layer of the skirt, the...

Jonathan
17 Jan 2017

All Projects

Adding Wifi to a Weather Station

I bought a cheap weather station with the intent of adding networked data logging. I ended up reverse engineering both the RF transmission, as well as the inter-chip communication at...

Jonathan
17 May 2021

Setting Up GNURadio and Tracking Planes

I bought a cheap software defined radio (SDR), and tracked planes in realtime with ADS-B. This was a bit of a warmup for a bigger project I wanted to use...

Jonathan
16 May 2021

Testing Cross Compiling with QEMU

Having to frequently set up cross-compilers, I figured it would be interesting to write out my current understanding and see what gaps I have. I found it educational to set...

Jonathan
30 Apr 2021

Dashboard to See Dice Stats from Roll20

Unsurprisingly, I am a member of a DnD (Pathfinder actually) group. During the pandemic we switch to playing online with a service called Roll20. We would often joke about the...

Jonathan
19 Apr 2021

Creating a Library for Google Nest API Monitoring

After the Roomba and Reolink, I thought Nest devices would be a snap. How wrong I was. Google made this much, much then it had any right to be.

Jonathan
02 Apr 2021

Reolink Python API with checkmk

Who watches the watchmen? In this case I set up a check to monitor my security cameras.

Jonathan
29 Mar 2021