11 min read Home Automation Home Automation Setup (2025) Curt March 26, 2025 It has been a few years since I did a home automation update (see my 2022 update) and a lot…
18 min read Home Automation ESP8266 Hacked KOIOS Air Filter using Okos Polip Device-to-Cloud Service Curt March 24, 2025 When I moved out to the Bay Area (California), I purchased a small KOIOS air filter to keep the wildfire…
5 min read Early Robotics, Undergrad Orion ~ A Robust Mobile Base Curt March 16, 2025 This is going to be a pretty short post as I don't have much content for this bot. Orion was…
4 min read Home Automation, Undergrad Home Automation Setup (Approx. 2017) Curt March 10, 2025 This is a short retrospective post on my home automation setup back in undergrad at MSOE. Unfortunately this was not…
17 min read Early Robotics, Undergrad, Machine Learning Triclops the Spinbot ~ Learning from Failure Curt March 10, 2025 Triclops is another one of my incomplete projects. It started while I was a freshman at Milwaukee School of Engineering…
24 min read Early Robotics Building RoverBot ~ An Arduino-Based Robot Curt March 2, 2025 RoverBot is an RC car hack gone wrong (but with plenty of lessons learned along the way). Started in high school, revisited in undergrad, and tuned up again after a move to California.
3 min read Home Automation, Random The Thing About Third Reality Gen3 Switches Curt February 24, 2025 Generally, I love my Third Reality Smart Switches. I currently have three single-pole light switches configured (garage, kitchen, and hallway)…
9 min read Home Automation Home Automation Setup (2022) Curt February 23, 2025 My goal someday is to have a nearly fully automated smart house with robot butlers serving me drinks on voice…
2 min read Random The Thing About Hex Bugs Curt February 23, 2025 A quick break from the semi-rigorous robotics discussion… Hex Bugs were cool. Not just the tiny ones that were only…
17 min read Early Robotics, Project Kits Next Steps with Robotics Kits ~ Parallax BOE-Bot Curt February 23, 2025 After I worked with the LEGO Mindstorms kit (see my post here), I moved on to BOE-Bot, an educational robotics kit…