At five years old, an electronics starter kit introduced LEDs and stepper motors and the hook was set. About a decade later, a new obsession arrived: computers. This is where it all started.
At five years old, an electronics starter kit introduced LEDs and stepper motors, and the hook was set. Electronics felt like the future. About a decade later, a new obsession arrived: computers.
Computers became the next chapter. After school came a computer science and engineering degree, followed by a full-time job at IBS Technologies, a software firm building airline cargo management systems. The work was interesting, the team was good, and at 23, things were just getting started.
The other thing
The day job was software. But evenings and weekends had always gone somewhere else: a Raspberry Pi, an Arduino, whatever half-finished idea was sitting on the desk. Some of it turned into something worth showing. Most of it didn't. One of those sessions led to a contribution to MagicMirror, an open-source smart mirror platform, which was the first time something built at home ended up in a project that strangers actually used.
That felt different from writing enterprise software for a living.
The gap
The one thing that bothered me: there was no record of any of it. Projects came and went, some worked, some didn't, but nothing was documented. No photos, no write-ups, no notes. All of it existed only in memory, which is not where things should live if they might be useful later.
What this is
This blog is the decision to fix that. Whatever gets built from here gets written down. The projects, the process, the wrong turns. Not for an audience necessarily, more because building something and leaving no trace felt like a waste.
If you're reading this, you're somewhere in that ongoing record. Welcome along.