Electrical engineering systems
Circuits control current and voltage to perform computation, signaling, and power distribution across components and boards.
What It Is
Industrial Automation is the use of control systems to operate industrial processes with minimal human intervention. On this site, it matters because it transfers across technical, operational, and venture work instead of staying trapped in one narrow context.
Learn more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_automation
Kitchen LED Lights
The third room in the Magnolia LED rollout, introducing physical constraints around heat, grease, and the need for actually useful task lighting.
LED Baseboard Lights — Bedroom
Soft baseboard lighting using the WLED ecosystem that shifts color temperature through the day — and revealed that bedroom smart lighting has near-zero tolerance for latency.
LED Lights — Office (WLED & WS2812b)
Individually addressable LED strips controlled by ESP8266/ESP32 running WLED, integrated with Apple HomeKit and Home Assistant to respond to time of day, calendar events, and sensor data.
Making the House Smarter
Projects wiring up the home with sensors, automation, lighting, audio, and climate systems — learning IoT and embedded hardware by living inside it.
Manufacturing Systems
Systems manage production, materials, workflows, and capacity in physical goods environments.
Mechanical systems
Physical assemblies transfer force and motion through components such as gears and actuators under constraints of energy, friction, and material properties.
Compute hardware systems
Physical machines such as CPUs, GPUs, memory, and storage execute instructions under constraints of heat, power, and architecture-level parallelism.
Computer Vision & Control Model for Robot (NI Vision + LabVIEW)
A vision-based robot control system using National Instruments hardware and LabVIEW — the robot sees, decides, and acts — with lessons that transferred directly to later data pipeline and real-time processing work.
Construction Systems
Systems coordinate projects, resources, timelines, and costs in the building of physical infrastructure.