Introducing Projects for Fun
Why Projects for Fun exists, and what it reveals about how I learn and build.
What It Is
Information is transmitted through the electromagnetic spectrum using modulation, frequency allocation, and protocol layering under physical and regulatory constraints.
What This Domain Trains You To Notice
This domain is valuable because physical and infrastructure systems make constraints legible. They show how components fit together, where tolerance matters, how failure propagates, and what it takes to keep an assembly reliable over time.
Why It Transfers
The broader payoff is transfer. Once you learn to see interfaces, bottlenecks, and feedback in a physical substrate, you get better at spotting the same patterns in software, organizations, and markets. This domain gets more useful when it is compared with adjacent systems instead of being treated as a silo. That is where reusable judgment starts to form.
Related Domains
Compute hardware systems
Physical machines such as CPUs, GPUs, memory, and storage execute instructions under constraints of heat, power, and architecture-level parallelism.
Construction Systems
Systems coordinate projects, resources, timelines, and costs in the building of physical infrastructure.
Home Automation Systems
Home automation interests me because it brings systems thinking into everyday physical life.
HVAC 'Space Pants' — Atrium Cooling
Designed and tested a DIY HVAC solution for an unresolved third-floor heating and cooling problem using 12-inch ducts and AC Infinity inline fans — before a full system replacement validated the approach.
Networking hardware systems
Routers, switches, and radios move packets across physical and wireless links using standardized protocols and topology-aware routing.
Photos on Amazon Echo Devices
A system for syncing and displaying family photos across Echo Show devices — where the hard problem turned out to be curation, not display.
Radio and Communication
Projects exploring radio systems, ham radio, LoRa, Meshtastic, RC control, and the infrastructure of communication at the edge of the network.
Radio Control Systems
Radio control systems have interested me since I was young — where communication, control, and motion all come together.
Radio Systems and Exploration
Radio systems are interesting to me for both personal and technical reasons.