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Nobody Is Teaching Engineering Leadership Anymore
My thoughts on a lack of engineering leadership
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SentinalNet
Autonomous edge AI nodes that detect disasters like fire and flooding, make local decisions, and warn people in real time — with zero cloud dependency. Built on the Arduino UNO Q with Edge Impulse models.
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Resilience Deck (like a Cyber Deck for emergencies)
Resilience Deck is an open-source, offline-first field computer designed to help communities diagnose, understand, and restore critical systems when normal infrastructure is unavailable.
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Automatic Medication Dispenser
A 7-slot medication dispenser with motor control and camera detection of pill intake. Notifies users on an app when to take their medication and whether they missed a dose.
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My EDGE AI Journey at devEco.io | Part 1
My journey to learn edge AI begins with the EDGE AI FOUNDATION Fundamentals Certification.
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My Experience at Open Sauce 2026
Open Sauce is a giant two-day STEM festival for makers and creators featuring over 100 creators and 500 exhibits. This year's event showcased many crazy projects and awesome creator panels. So join me on my journey through Open Sauce 2026!
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PlantVillage Disease Classification [AKIDA HARDWARE]
This project walks through evaluating a PlantVillage AkidaNet model on Akida and, if a hardware device is available, benchmarking its latency and power on a physical AKD1500. It's the hardware companion to the PlantVillage Disease Classification software project. If you haven't seen that yet, it walks through training, quantizing, and converting the model this project benchmarks.
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Bloop:A cozy sightsea-ing quest (online MMO Game Prototype)
I made a little online multiplayer game inspired by my recent underwater robotics work. You can pilot a little ROV around the ocean, explore shipwrecks, take photos and categorize fish and things. It’s multiplayer and I’m thinking of having treasure hunts, etc. I put the basic version up at https://bloop.quest/. I am hoping to expand the game and keep developing it, so would love any ideas or feedback anyone has.
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Knitronics Add-on Badge for Open Sauce 2026
This year I decided to create my own add-on badge for Open Sauce, which resulted in this fun LED flasher badge based on a simple 555 timer circuit.
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PlantVillage Disease Classification
This project walks through the complete pipeline to train, quantize, convert, and benchmark an AkidaNet model on the PlantVillage dataset for Akida 1 hardware. PlantVillage contains 54,303 images of healthy and diseased plant leaves across 38 categories (14 crop species × multiple disease types plus healthy variants). The task is a 38-class image classification problem: given a 224×224 RGB image of a leaf, identify the crop species and disease (or healthy state).
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Real-Time Edge Intelligence on Arm Cortex Processors
Discover a practical engineering methodology for building intelligent embedded systems by combining deterministic DSP, physics-based modelling and Edge AI. This article introduces the Real-Time Edge Intelligence framework and the handbook behind it.
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My Edge AI Contest Proposal
I'm building an application for elderly care
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FPV Omnibot Gripper
A mod of the Hack Pack Omnibot Forklift adding precise maneuvers, a robotic gripper, a web control interface, remote camera streaming, and much more.
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X/Y Plotter
Ressurecting Matt Shepard's plotter thats been in the attic for a decade.
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Beaglewire
The BeagleWire is an FPGA (Lattice iCE40HX4k) development platform that has been designed for use with BeagleBone boards.
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ICE-V Wireless
ICE40UP5K FPGA module with wireless interface driven by ESP32-C3
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heatsynclabs.io project
"Weeding Vinyl is Hard" t-shirt
A tongue-in-cheek heat transfer vinyl design with some (intentional) errors.
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Introducing the NTP1061 Outdoor Time Server
Introducing an affordable, weatherproof, self-contained NTP server! A single Power Over Ethernet cable is now all it takes to deliver sub-millisecond time accuracy to an entire network, no manual clock-setting or antenna wiring required.
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Supercharge NetBurner Development with AI
You know AI can write emails and answer trivia questions for you, and you might even use it to help you write code, but did you know that there are plugins to
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How to Connect an Embedded System to AWS IoT Core with MQTT
Use MQTT on Amazon Web Services with a Hardware Device (ESP32) and use the IoT Data for further analysis on AWS itself
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