A LOT has happened since Part 1. When I wrote the first post, Terminus was just an idea and a mermaid diagram. Now it’s an actual physical device sitting on my desk that can send and receive real ...

Concept image generated by ChatGPT Starting a Terminal-Style Cellular Device I’m starting one of my most ambitious projects yet: A working geek phone from scratch. Smartphones are cool, but they...

Running ChatGPT on a PC With No Internet Access So one thing about me is that my parents are REALLY strict when it comes to internet usage — to the point where the only computers I own that can co...

Introduction Center channel speakers are very important for home theater setups. While working on a home theater setup with my father for our family, I decided to design and build my own center sp...

I built a small, reliable USB programmer for STC microcontrollers such as the STC89C52, centered on the CH340N USB–UART bridge. There are many USB-TTL devices out there but this one is a little bit...

https://github.com/bolanxu/binary_watch Intro Hello and welcome to my blog! This post is about a project that I completed a few months ago: the Binary Watch V2. The concept of a binary watch isn’...

Introduction to Project I’ve been a little busy recently and haven’t had time to post on my blog. Recently I’ve been working on making a electric vehicle (EV) for the Science Olympiad Competition....

Set up Environment Read my previous post on setting up ROS2 with Webots first. Change the current directory of your terminal to ros2_ws/src and run: ros2 pkg create --build-type ament_python --n...

Install Webots First make sure you have Webots installed. Note: I am using ROS2 Foxy with Ubuntu 20.04 and the only Webots version that works with this setup is 2022b. Here is a table shows ho...