Projects

A from-scratch engine control unit for a miniature turbojet: custom STM32 PCB, safety-first bare-metal firmware, and a desktop bench app, all built after the factory ECU died.

A portable ground control station in a Pelican 1550: mini PC, custom ESP32-S3 control-panel PCB, dual MFD displays, and a fully engineered 12V LiFePO4 power system.

A dual-axis gimbal that points an L-band antenna at satellites in real time: ESP32, stepper drivers, live orbital data, and a web control panel, for about $10 of compute.

A radar sensing and logging platform built for a friend: ESP32 firmware streams presence data from a 60 GHz radar into a database, with a live web dashboard and a custom carrier PCB.

An electronically-steered phased array for drone use: the entire RF PCB is generated programmatically from Python, on a hybrid Rogers 4350B stackup with blind vias.

A Rust + Three.js simulation environment for the phased array hardware: beam steering, FMCW radar DSP, and a virtual STM32, live in the browser.

A family of cheap, fully autonomous target drones for testing counter-UAS systems: no control link to jam, swarm behavior, and TSPI scoring data, optimized for unit cost.

A drone that patrols large properties on its own: GPS search patterns, thermal imaging, edge ML for wild hog detection, and a 2-mile tested radio link.

On-aircraft animal detection from FLIR thermal video: from a naive threshold detector that failed in Texas summer to quantized YOLO on an Edge TPU.

A wall-mounted LED matrix that scrolls business headlines and live portfolio positions, the visible end of a multi-machine home-lab pipeline.

A live web platform for instant-runoff polls: create a poll, share a link, watch round-by-round eliminations. Running at vote.reid.wiki.

The site you're reading: Astro static build, S3 + CloudFront hosting, GitHub Actions CI/CD, and a browser-based CMS so updates don't require a git push.