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Transmission log
What I Learned Losing the AI Builders Hackathon
I built a roofing estimator that hit 2.1% accuracy error in four hours and still lost. Honest postmortem on what I built, where I stopped short, and what changes next time.
What a Hostname Rename Taught Me About Proxmox Internals
A routine rename turned into a kernel panic, a Ventoy injection discovery, and live SQLite surgery on a running Proxmox cluster. Everything I didn't know about how Proxmox actually stores config.
Jarvis: Architecture of an AI Robot Dog
The state machine, threading model, audio pipeline, LED system, physical commands, and game modes that run under the hood of a local AI robot dog. No cloud, no subscriptions.
The Script That Eliminated a Support Queue
How 60 lines of Python generating WiFi QR codes for 200+ apartment units eliminated an entire category of resident support calls before they ever happened.
Project 1984: I Built a Covert Recorder Inside a Book
An ESP32 Feather, an I2S microphone, a microSD breakout, and a hollowed-out hardcover copy of Orwell's 1984. Open the book, flip the switch, set it down. Lessons in hollowing, soldering, and why you need a hard power cutoff switch.
The Real Project Wasn't the Bot
I reverse-engineered a browser MMO, mapped 25 undocumented endpoints, and taught my non-technical brother how it all worked. He used AI to take it the rest of the way. Now he builds his own games.