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Automated Delivery Crane

5-27-23

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I lived a few stories up in my old Jones St apartment. I couldn’t buzz people in, and there was no functioning elevator. I loved to use apps like Instacart, Rinse, and Uber Eats to get deliveries, but I didn’t love making the trip down and up to receive those deliveries. This served as the […]

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Automation Calculator App

3-30-23

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As someone who likes to automate things with software and hardware, I decided to create an open source web app with Ruby on Rails that will help me determine what ideas I have will save me the most time.

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Automated Water Dispenser

2-9-23

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I built this to automatically refill my glass of water at my desk. It uses an HX 711 load cell connected to an Arduino to open/close a solenoid valve based on the weight of the glass of water. With no weight, it closes the valve. When the weight is between a minimum threshold and a […]

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Automated Cereal Dispenser

2-6-23

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This is an automated cereal dispenser I made with an Arduino to dispense cereal into a bowl automatically every day at 7 am. One less thing to do for the day. Note this shows only one loop of many, the Arduino can be configured to repeat this loop to fill up the bowl as much […]

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Arduino Wifi Joystick Controller

2-4-23

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I wanted the option to control my Wifi remote-controlled car with a traditional joystick setup, so I made this. Here is a link to the open-source code for the controller This remote was built to drive this remote control car. The JSON structure of its commands was intentionally built to be generic, however, so it […]

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