Industrial Automation

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.

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.

A standardized test robot built from LEGO for repeatable, reconfigurable multi-motion and vision testing — because having a reliable test platform is the difference between debugging code and debugging hardware at the same time.

Projects wiring up the home with sensors, automation, lighting, audio, and climate systems — learning IoT and embedded hardware by living inside it.

Systems manage production, materials, workflows, and capacity in physical goods environments.

Multi-language robotics programming across NI hardware for FRC mentorship — maintaining parallel codebases for the same robot behaviors to understand what's universal versus what's a language artifact.

A system for syncing and displaying family photos across Echo Show devices — where the hard problem turned out to be curation, not display.

Built a remote learning environment during the pandemic so students could access LabVIEW software and physical lab hardware from anywhere — keeping a robotics program running when everything else shut down.

Robotics brings together many of the things I care about most: building, learning, teamwork, mentorship, and the joy of making complex systems real.

Projects building robots, mentoring students through FIRST Robotics, and creating the tools and environments that make hands-on learning possible.