Hardware

Building a local LoRa mesh network using Meshtastic — solar-powered repeater nodes and handheld devices for off-grid, encrypted, peer-to-peer communication that doesn't depend on the internet or cell towers.

Cigar box cyberdeck. Raspberry Pi, orange keyboard, dual screens, hazard tape. Actually runs Linux.

Repurposed 1970s slide viewer, Raspberry Pi Zero, NASA API. A retrofuturistic passive info display.

A Python script running on a Raspberry Pi scrapes Shepard Fairey's print archive, converts each image to 7 colors, and displays it on a color e-paper screen. Built fast, with parts already on hand.

A hand-built e-ink ereader. Waveshare 7.5" e-paper display, Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, rotary encoder, UPS battery hat. Reads epub and CBZ. Built from parts already on hand.

Added MIDI input to a 1982 Yamaha CS01-II analog synthesizer using a Highly Liquid UMR2 universal retrofit board. Involves soldering, the service manual, and a transposition quirk baked into the keyboard layout.

Arduino-based add-on that reads CV/Gate output from the TB-303 or TD-3 and generates a PWM square wave oscillator — fed back into the synth's filter input for phasing and wobble effects.