Main Page

This site serves documentation for my various projects, mostly for my own reference, but also as a way to share them. Using a wiki for this purpose is certainly overkill, but it is easy to edit and format, and I am familiar with it. Whenever I do a fairly involved project, there's a decent chance I will write up the things I learned on this site. As it stands, this site is still relatively sparse, because I like working on projects more than writing about them, like most people.

This web server and the content it provides is also a project in and of itself. This is running on server hardware and software that I set up myself, so as such even the content you are reading now is experimental. I guarantee no stability or reliable access, although I will do my best to keep this available online for as long as possible (though as of 2020 I have had a server like this running continuously for over 5 years).

Project List

More major projects are listed below, in no particular order. See the list of all pages here.

• AWOL Box - My take on the infamous Mikal Hart Reverse Geocache™ puzzle
• Nixie Clock 1 - First completed Nixie clock/display unit
• Nixie Clock 2 - Second Nixie display
• RC Wheelchair 1 - Hacking the joystick of an electric wheelchair for remote control
• RC Wheelchair 2 - A complete high-power h-bridge controller, controls, and radio system.
• RC Wheelchair 3 - Latest version, using an rs485 bus between different modules
• Wilson X carriage - Improved x-carriage for the Prusa i3 style 3d printer.
• COW arm - a robot arm for the wheelchair robot base
• Lora module - module that makes using LoRa radio communications easier to work with.
• Environmental logger - A time capsule experiment
• Model T speedometer - General purpose GPS based speedometer for cars that don't have one.
• Geiger counter - my homemade Geiger counter using a SBM20 tube
• Raspberry Pi DVR - my main way of recording TV off the air
• Soviet Bloc Game (C) - my version of a Tetris-like clone (in C)
• Door monitor - putting an unused security system to "good" use.
• uScreen - general purpose module with esp8266 and Nokia LCD
• 6888 Transmitter - 6888 tube-based AM transmitter
• Sky Pointer - a thingy for pointing out objects in the sky.
• Atlas Gears - Replacement lathe/mill changegears
• Smart Response XE - Hacking of a school response system
• Floppy disk drive hacking - Poking around floppy drives with a logic analyzer
• Coronameter - Dedicated screen for pandemic panicking.
• midiCNC - python program for playing MIDI files on a CNC machine / stepper motors with gcode
• Miscellaneous - short things that aren't long enough for their own page
• Unpublished Projects

TRS-80 Stuff

• TRS-80 Model 1 - Character ROM
• TRS-80 Model 1 - Wilson Expansion Interface - an Expansion Interface (needed to connect floppy drives and other peripherals to the 1977 TRS-80 microcomputer)
• TRS-80 Plug 'n Power Controller - reverse engineering an extinct trs-80 accessory
• WC-80 - A work in progress to build TRS-80 compatible Z80 computer

Other Services

This server has hosted a number of different things since it's original incarnation in high school. Some of the old services are still up (but others are unlisted or taken down due to spam or security risks)

• Public Lists - experimental spam collection
• Winter Camp Notifier Script - service that emails you when new Winter Camp discussion takes place
• WICM - A copy of the Winter Camp encyclopedia translated into MediaWiki

What is the fish?

The green fish is from a game I made when I first learned how to program. Over time, it turned into the logo that I use for my projects.