Notes
Occasional write-ups: flight tests, milestones, and things that took longer than they should have.
Rebuilding this site: Jekyll → Astro, with an admin panel
Jul 3, 2026 The old site ran a Jekyll theme in a Docker container on ECS and went stale anyway. The rebuild attacks the actual problem: updating it was annoying.
First thermal flight test
Jul 31, 2025 Video downlink stability, a temporary FLIR mount, and the moment the naive thermal detector met a Texas summer.
Licensed: KJ5JQC
Jan 20, 2025 Passed the amateur radio Technician exam — a deliberate foundation step for the antenna and drone RF work.