For a couple of weeks now I have been helping out a friend make a full management server and frontend for his grilling club. This server does automatic shopping lists and price margins, merchant billing, and booking services for students and other clubs to use when inviting the grilling club to events. Most of everything is completed, not its mostly debug and clean up.
I was getting really tired of the back and forward with different teachers using different learning management systems, so I decided to combine their API's and create one webapp that controls all, where I can view and submit assignments from there. But why stop at that? I also incorporated Machine Learning to automatically schedule my week in terms of priority, and when and where I should complete my assignments, based on past data on my working habits. It also provides breaks.
Most of my volunteer work is done at the Milwaukee Discovery World Museum, where I maintain and automate the large HO scale direct current control model train in the STEM exhibit. Automations include dynamic train traversing with environment variables and sensors, button presses, turntable motions, sensor wiring, and more. The goal is to get it automated to a state that the museum staff don't have to check on it as often.
As a team lead of FRC team 7407 Wired Boars, I have been working on writing documentation for newer members of the team to utilize in their learning journeys. When I was starting, since the language we use is Python and not explicitly official, there were a lot of hoops and installs that I needed to get through. Well, no more to that! It's still in progress, but there are lots of resources to check out.
Throughout the summer of 2022 and 2023, I have been working on creating python programmable racing drones for students at the Milwaukee Montessori School. Using PX4 software bootloaded onto hobby grade flight controllers, I am able to effectively transform any FPV Drone into an autonomous one.