Projects

Welcome to the Internet of Toilets. An IoT-connected cat litter box built with a Raspberry Pi, weight sensors, and Node.js. Monitors usage patterns and sends notifications. Became one of my most popular conference talks - presented at 20+ events worldwide.

A 32x32 LED pixel art frame behind a two-way mirror, driven by a Raspberry Pi. It plays seasonal pixel art, and Home Assistant pushes to it: ON AIR when my camera turns on, the doorbell, the weather. It's open source, and every scene is a plugin.

A smart mirror built with a Raspberry Pi running MagicMirror² software behind a two-way mirror. Displays weather, calendar, news, and Home Assistant integrations. Still running in my house today.

DIY smart light panels inspired by Nanoleaf, built with 3D-printed housings, WS2812B LED strips, and an ESP8266. Controllable via MQTT and Home Assistant. A fun weekend project that turned into a deep dive into embedded systems.

Custom 3D-printed planter insert designed in Fusion 360 for a recycled postcard rack. Printed on my Prusa MK3. A fun exercise in turning digital design into a real-world object.

What does a book look like without words? Punc strips text down to its punctuation skeleton and visualizes the patterns left behind. Feed it any text file and get a PDF showing the structure beneath the prose.

A digital humanities project exploring performativity in cinema. Inspired by Joseph Cornell's 1936 found footage film. Analyzes and visualizes narrative structure in film scripts.

Does your favorite film pass the Bechdel Test? Uses NLP to parse movie scripts and analyze gender representation in dialogue. Includes a custom scraper to pull scripts from IMSDB by genre or title. Featured in multiple publications and conference talks.

A real-time Spotify player built with React. My most starred open source project. Integrates with the Spotify Web API for custom playback. Accompanied a popular tutorial.

An interactive art installation where audience members draw on a shared digital canvas that displays their creations in real-time on a physical RGB LED grid. Uses MongoDB Realm for instant cross-client data sync.

A voice-following teleprompter that runs in the browser and listens with a local whisper.cpp model. Read your script out loud and the highlight follows you, through flubs, skips, and ad-libs. You pick the model, the audio never leaves your machine, and the column centers over the camera lens so nobody can see your eyes reading. I built it because I can't memorize lines.

A macOS screen recorder that drafts the edit for me, because editing is the part of video I hate. I talk through a demo once, and it keeps the talking at real time, speeds up the typing, cuts the dead air, zooms on clicks and adds captions. Then I fix it on a timeline or ask an AI model to change it.

A full-stack open source demo showing how to build AI-powered cloud security analysis across AWS, GCP, and Azure. Ingests multi-cloud data via CloudQuery, sanitizes PII with differential privacy, and uses GPT-4 to detect cross-cloud attack paths and generate Terraform remediation steps. Includes a React dashboard and a companion YouTube walkthrough.

Built a Go MCP server before Anthropic released an official Go SDK, bridging Claude and Cursor directly to CloudQuery's cloud infrastructure database. AI assistants went from zero database awareness to querying live cloud data mid-conversation - no copy-pasting schemas. Co-authored two posts: the build walkthrough and a hard-won gotchas guide on tool descriptions, naming, and context window limits.

Common data structures and algorithms implemented in JavaScript. Created as teaching material when I was an instructor at DevLeague. Covers linked lists, trees, graphs, sorting, and more.

Every way a client and server communicate - HTTP, WebSockets, SSE, GraphQL, gRPC, and more. A complete reference guide with examples.

Generates unique Sudoku boards across 4 difficulty levels with a built-in solver using backtracking.

A CLI tool for generating [adult swim]-style pre-roll bumpers for your personal media server. Define bumpers in YAML, drop in background video clips and music, and render MP4s ready to load into Tunarr. White text cards, fading audio, your server name in brackets at the end - the whole bit.

AI-generated custom pre-roll intros for Plex. Give it a theme and it chains Runway gen4_image to create a still, then gen4_turbo to animate it into a full video intro - VHS glitch, cinematic nature, neon outrun, whatever you want playing before your movie starts.

A production subtitle generation pipeline using GPU-accelerated Whisper (faster-whisper) with NVIDIA CUDA. Features parallel workers, automatic language detection and translation, VRAM-aware scheduling, and time-of-day worker scaling to share GPU resources across services.

A from-scratch Python implementation of MikroTik's proprietary binary API protocol. Handles variable-length encoding, authentication, and sentence-based messaging for programmatic control of network infrastructure - bonding, DHCP, firewall rules, and more.

A 2-node Proxmox cluster running 30+ LXC containers and VMs. Self-hosted services include Plex, Home Assistant, Frigate NVR, Grafana, and more. 20Gbps LACP backbone. I wrote the guide.

Replaced Alexa with Home Assistant Voice. Local speech processing via Wyoming Whisper on GPU. Zigbee devices, Frigate camera AI, and zero cloud dependencies.