Archives: March 2025

It has been a few years since I did a home automation update (see my 2022 update) and a lot has changed. I moved (twice), got some new devices, have both Google Home and Alexa agents, and started work…

When I moved out to the Bay Area (California), I purchased a small KOIOS air filter to keep the wildfire smoke at a reasonable level in my (at the time) one-bedroom apartment. After a while, I…

January 2022, this was at the San Francisco Premium Outlets in Livermore. I went with my husband (boyfriend at the time) early in our relationship. I had just moved out to the Bay Area (Dublin) in…

Orion was a project I tackled in undergrad. I wanted to build a mobile base that could be used for experimentation (and I wanted it to be sturdy). Plus I had just gotten access to a makerspace and…

This is a short retrospective post on my home automation setup back in undergrad at MSOE. Unfortunately this was not well documented, but it was an interesting start to my home automation tinkering…

Triclops is another one of my incomplete projects. It started while I was a freshman at Milwaukee School of Engineering. My goal was to build a Spinbot: a single motor robot that modulates its speed…

RoverBot is an RC car hack gone wrong (but with plenty of lessons learned along the way). To set the scene, I was in early high school, having built a few BEAM robots and finished up the LEGO…