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Projects

Small apps I wanted to use, hardware I wanted to understand, and a treehouse I'd always wanted to build.

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P/NBS-TXT-26
Year2026

Jot

A simple markdown editor for Mac, Windows and Linux. It renders markdown as you type and stays out of the way.

  • Built with Tauri, so it's small and native
  • Open source, with releases for every platform
Jot editor screenshotJot editor screenshotView A
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P/NBS-2X6-20
Year2020

Treehouse

A treehouse built about ten feet up a single trunk with my brother and cousins.

  • Four of us built it over two months in the summer of 2020
  • Held up by one trunk and four cantilever beams, about 10 ft up
Treehouse in the treesView A
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P/NBS-RGB-18
Year2018

vmatrix

A real-time spectrogram and audio visualizer on an RGB LED matrix.

  • Written in C on a Raspberry Pi 3
  • Interactive, and reacts to live audio
vmatrix LED matrix showing a visualizerView A
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P/NBS-APO-17
Year2017

Open Rocketry Initiative

Open-source rocketry: a flight computer that detects apogee and fires the chute, plus a smart launchpad.

  • Code and CAD for the flight computer, launchpad and homemade motors
  • Funded by a NASA RI Space Grant
Rocket launchingView A
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P/NBS-UAV-16
Year2016

Lunadrop

Autonomous drone delivery, built with a team at Brown.

  • Carries up to 1 kg and stays on LTE in flight
  • Dispatched from a web app
Lunadrop delivery droneView A
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P/NBS-FFT-16
Year2016

Audiolux

A real-time, audio-synchronized light show.

  • A Teensy runs a 1024-point FFT on incoming audio
  • Each of 16 frequency bands drives its own LEDs
Audiolux light controllerView A