World of Buoys
LiveThe whole NOAA buoy network, about 1,300 stations, as a live telemetry console with a map, fleet view and correlation research.
- Python
- FastAPI
- React
- Kafka
- CouchDB
Selected work
Projects
Things I've built for the fun of it: small services wired together with Kafka, a bit of hardware and radio, and a homelab that runs them all with no cloud bill.
Live now 2
Sassy Routes
LiveA router that finds the fun roads to a destination (Michigan only, for now), lets you trade fun against extra time, and hands the route to Google Maps.
- Python
- TypeScript
- GraphHopper
- React
- CouchDB
Built 7
Argus: a homelab that runs itself
Two sites of servers and apps that patch, back up and redeploy themselves, watched by Argus, a monitor I built that checks every service every minute.
- Python
- FastAPI
- React
- Ansible
- Docker
- Prometheus
- GitHub Actions
MARS
A workspace for building and running Apache Flink SQL pipelines, with a pipeline map, scheduling, savepoints and run history.
- Python
- JavaScript
- Java
- Apache Flink
Deal Watch
Watches eBay, Craigslist, OfferUp and Slickdeals for listings well under their usual price, checks them with a local LLM, and sends a Telegram alert.
- Python
- FastAPI
- Playwright
- Ollama
Personal Health Pipeline
Phone and wearable readings streamed through Kafka into CouchDB and a mobile-first dashboard of vitals, activity and sleep.
- JavaScript
- React
- Recharts
- Express
- Kafka
- CouchDB
The Chair
A load cell under my chair turns every sit into a Kafka event that drives the lights and a live dashboard.
- Python
- Raspberry Pi
- Kafka
Whisper Bot
Reads an anonymous group chat into Kafka, trains on it, and posts one gloriously absurd message of its own each day.
- Python
- Kafka
- TensorFlow
- Ollama
Farm Sensor Network
Solar ESP32 nodes speaking raw LoRa to a Raspberry Pi hub, a Go API and a live dashboard that can flash new nodes.
- Go
- C++
- TypeScript
- LoRa
Smaller builds 3
- CosmicSleep Does geomagnetic activity affect sleep? NOAA space weather against crowdsourced sleep reports. TypeScript · React
- Robo-Runner An RC car that streams its camera and takes driving input over Redis. Python · Redis
- Grain Mill Automation Stops a Blichmann grain mill by itself after each fill. Python · Raspberry Pi