electrical engineering

pcb-design rf high-voltage solar meshtastic supercaps samd21 attiny nfc

An Introduction to Gamma Spectroscopy

Gamma Spec Theory, Modeling, and PCB Design. Article for Hardware Thrashers of X

OpenFlashlight

Open source flashlight/handheld laser kit with ATTiny816 CC driver + battery charger PCB

Femtofox Pro TX Power + Power Consumption Testing

E22-900M-30S boosted LoRa gateway TX power testing + Femtofox Pro Linux Meshtastic Node power usage testing

WASP, Wearable AI Synthesis Platform

An open source AI weable project

Spacebridge HAB PCB Development

Meshtastic DIY High Altitude Ballooning at Noisebridge Hackerspace

Hello, San Francisco

A Variety of Fun Updates and Adventures

OpenSauce 2024

Exhibiting at OpenSauce 2023 and Related SF Adventures

Microwave Furnace

10kW of 2.4GHz RF :3

ESP32S2 MicroMPPT

BQ2425X Dynamic Power Management as Low cost Solar MPPT/BMS

Bluetooth/FM Transmitter

DIY SI4712/ESP32 Base Bluetooth->FM Transmitter

NFC/LED Chip Implant

Notes on-Implanting an xSiiD NFC/LED Chip

Solar Powered NFC Transponder

Solar powered NFC transponer for PSK car access/ignition via xSIID NFC implant.

Intro to Atopile

Installation, usage, and best-practices

DIY Airtag

Low cost open-source Find My Network geolocator

DRSSTC1

Tiny Dual Resonant Solid State Telsa Coil

Copper electroplating printed parts

CuSO4 electroplating on mSLA/FDM 3D printed parts

Femtofox MPPT

MPPT for the Femtofox Linux Meshtastic Client

Femtofox Project

Configuration guidelines, power usage testing, RF transmit power testing

Gamma Spectroscopy

Modeling and buidling scintillator + SiPM gamma spectroscopes for radioisotope identification

Izzymonitor HAOS Control Panel

ESP32-S3 based ESPHome HAOS Panel

Microelectrode Arrays

Constructing microelectrode arrays for cultured neurons for Frontier Tower's Neurotech floor

Micromppt

800mV-5.5Vin MPPT Boost Charger with Autonomous Perturb-and-Observe Setpoint Adjustment

Head In A Jar (Opensauce 2025)

Nixon Tulpa, Robot Head with Silicone Skin, Interactive LLM with Knowledge Graph Integration

Non Human Scent

Edge ML gas composition sensing with MOX arrays and ESP32-S3

Open Flashlight

Open Source Flashlight with Atopile

3D Printed Neopixel LED Pumpkin

3D Printed Neopixel Halloween Pumpkin with ATTiny85

Spacebridge HAB PCB

High altitude balloon payload PCB with LoRa, GPS, heating, enviromental sensing, and a cutoff mechanism

Veramonitor HAOS Control Panel

ESP32-S3 based ESPHome HAOS Panel

Voron 2.4 Build

350mm Self Sourced Voron V2.4r2

WASP, Wearable AI Synthesis Platform

BLE 5.2 module for wearable conversation transcription and analysis

MASSIVE spark gap tesla coil at LOD labs

Wirelessly powered capacitively coupled wireless bike at LOD labs

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nonhumanscent, ML-assisted gas composition sensing with BME688 and ESP32S3

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Marin County Gamma/EM survey

pcb-design

Spacebridge HAB PCB Development

Meshtastic DIY High Altitude Ballooning at Noisebridge Hackerspace

Intro to Atopile

Installation, usage, and best-practices

Spacebridge HAB PCB

High altitude balloon payload PCB with LoRa, GPS, heating, enviromental sensing, and a cutoff mechanism

rf

Femtofox Pro TX Power + Power Consumption Testing

E22-900M-30S boosted LoRa gateway TX power testing + Femtofox Pro Linux Meshtastic Node power usage testing

Microwave Furnace

10kW of 2.4GHz RF :3

Bluetooth/FM Transmitter

DIY SI4712/ESP32 Base Bluetooth->FM Transmitter

DIY Airtag

Low cost open-source Find My Network geolocator

Femtofox Project

Configuration guidelines, power usage testing, RF transmit power testing

high-voltage

Microwave Furnace

10kW of 2.4GHz RF :3

DRSSTC1

Tiny Dual Resonant Solid State Telsa Coil

solar

ESP32S2 MicroMPPT

BQ2425X Dynamic Power Management as Low cost Solar MPPT/BMS

Solar Powered NFC Transponder

Solar powered NFC transponer for PSK car access/ignition via xSIID NFC implant.

Femtofox MPPT

MPPT for the Femtofox Linux Meshtastic Client

Micromppt

800mV-5.5Vin MPPT Boost Charger with Autonomous Perturb-and-Observe Setpoint Adjustment

meshtastic

Femtofox Pro TX Power + Power Consumption Testing

E22-900M-30S boosted LoRa gateway TX power testing + Femtofox Pro Linux Meshtastic Node power usage testing

Spacebridge HAB PCB Development

Meshtastic DIY High Altitude Ballooning at Noisebridge Hackerspace

Femtofox MPPT

MPPT for the Femtofox Linux Meshtastic Client

Femtofox Project

Configuration guidelines, power usage testing, RF transmit power testing

Spacebridge HAB PCB

High altitude balloon payload PCB with LoRa, GPS, heating, enviromental sensing, and a cutoff mechanism

supercaps

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rendering of the LTC3350 supercap bidirectional converter PCB

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holding the first bidirectional converter prototype I assembled :)

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LTC3110 based bidirectional converter with attiny1627 uC. produced in the process of testing kyocera-AVX prismatic caps for a variety of applications

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underside of the LTC3110 PCB. off-the-shelf RF cans secure two prismatic caps securing and provide some protection. produced a version with a lower profile solid aluminum can in the same style

samd21

IGBT singing ignition coil playing a nokia ring tone

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this is an ignition coil driven by an IGBT half bridge by an arduino designed to play music on a jacob's ladder. here it is producing a heart around 20khz

attiny

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Open Flashlight PCB Rendering

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Izzymonitor HAOS panel

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rendering of the LTC3350 supercap bidirectional converter PCB

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holding the first bidirectional converter prototype I assembled :)

nfc

xSIID self implant procedure

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LED visible in daylight after some healing