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Regenald
June 9, 2024
Regenald Regenald is a differential drive robot I built for Louisa County Public Schools using ROS2 and an Nvidia Jetson Xavier NX with the ability to perform Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). The robot is based on James Bruton’s Really Useful Robot with some modifications to take lower cost parts that are also available in the United States. Most of the body’s contruction is 3D printed with a few aluminum extrusions and 8mm steel rods.
Dadbot
February 3, 2023
Natural language conversation Dadbot was a projecct that I’ve had going on for a while but I haven’t posted much about it. Dadbot originally was a Discord chatbot that could engage in casual conversation and has gone through many iterations. The reason I haven’t shared much about Dadbot is because I’ve only ever hosted Dadbot for my friends and not publicly due to my lack of computational power. The most recent iteration is one using natural language transformers. The current configuration is using the 350M parameter Facebook OPT model since that has given the best results in casual conversation out of similar models that can run on my server with limtied resources.
Ephemeral
May 20, 2022
Ephemeral Chat Ephemeral is a simple websocket based chat service that I made to learn how to use the Yew library made in Rust to see how good web development in Rust is now. It’s currently hosted and running on a subdomain or directly embedded on this site
Firefly
September 19, 2021
What is Firefly? Firefly is a homebrew microkernel written in Rust. It’s just a a project to help learn how a kernel works and how to write one in Rust since Rust is memory safe.
Tritium
September 19, 2021
What is Tritium? Tritium is a research project dealing with balanced ternary computing. It’s meant to explore and create balanced ternary components rather than create a fully functional ternary computer. However, creating a fully functional balanced ternary computer may be done after each component is researched and prototyped.
Graviton
February 2, 2020
What is it? It is a simple statically typed nearly everything is an expression language implemented in Rust. The compiler is meant to be simple and easy to read. The language has a small scope similar to Lua in terms of simplicity.
Braille Generator
February 2, 2020
What is it? It is a project made for the 2019 Technology Student Association state competitions. It is a program that generates a 3d braille plate model which can be exported as an .obj and 3d printed.
Amalgamation
February 2, 2020
What is it? It is meant to be a simple game engine but right now it’s just a simple OpenGL wrapper since it’s gone through so many rebuilds.