AI Joining forces with AI: A Chrome extension in minutes Working with AI, not against it. I created a Chrome web plugin in minutes with ChatGPT.
3D Printing A Nerf Gun Mod: Enabling the next generation of Makers My son was inspired by his recent Maker meetup visit to create a Nerf gun attachment. I helped him bring it from sketch to CAD, into the real world
esk8 Building a DIY electric skateboard, powered by drill batteries I was hung up on not being ready to make my own Li-Ion pack, but when I realized I could just use the batteries from my drill, the project was a go.
IoT Smart Homestead - Add a remote switch to your electric fence for less than $10 Smart fence chargers are expensive, but you can add a remote switch to your existing charger easily and cheaply.
3D Printing What the manual doesn't tell you - Ender 3 Pro initial setup The Ender 3 is a great value printer, but newbies should look out for these gotchas.
NodeJs Attitude Determines Outcome: Using take-home coding challenges as an opportunity to learn Take-home coding challenges filled me with dread, but a change in attitude makes all the difference.
Script Stock Checker Update: Run it on Windows I created a Stock Checker to check for stock online. These are the instructions for installing the script on Windows.
Linux Trying out NodeJs Development on Windows using WSL 2 I try my hand at using the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL 2) for a modern NodeJs / ReactJs development workflow.
Script Run your own free Stock Checker - Check if sought-after items are in stock online Here is the stock checker that I created while trying to buy an Nvidia RTX 3080. I will show you how to set it up for yourself to monitor online stores for stock.
IoT Sleep Timer - Building an IoT sleep training app I wanted to make an IoT version of the gro-clock. A better sleep training device that you can control from your phone.
Hosting Setting up 2 Ghost blogs on 1 server Steps to setting up multiple ghost.org blogging sites on a single host server.
Android Egg turner - DIY, 3D Printed and Arduino powered Designed and 3d Printed quail egg turner. Using Sketchup, Ultimaker, and a cheap servo.
IoT Android Remote Egg Cam - DIY hatching camera using an old smartphone Using an old android phone to remotely and automatically take pictures of quail eggs every half an hour to keep an eye on hatching remotely.
Arduino Temperature and Humidity Tweet Bot A simple project to take temperature and humidity readings from my quail egg incubator with a DHT11 and Particle Photon and Tweet them via IFTTT.
Cryptocurrency EthOS Miner Status Checker Script to check the hashrate of workes on EthOs for Ethereum mining and reboot the machine if it crashes.
Arduino Braainado: An over-engineered BBQ fan I have created a mad, over-engineered BBQ gun from racing quadcopter parts. It is over the top but works amazingly.
Résumé My Résumé/CV is now publicly available Let me explain why I put my Résumé/CV online for everyone to see...
Drone ZMR250 Custom Tilting Foxeer FPV Camera Mount A walk through of the design and 3D Printing of a custom tilting mount for the Foxier FPV camera for the popular ZMR250 quadcopter frame. Designed using OpenSCAD and Printed using an Original Utlimaker 3D Printer.
Drone ZMR250 Quadcopter Protective Battery Cage A walk through of the design and 3D Printing of a custom battery holder for the popular ZMR250 quadcopter frame. Designed using OpenSCAD and Printed using an Original Utlimaker 3D Printer.
Drone Designing and 3D Printing a ZMR250 Quadcopter Spacer A walk through of the design and 3D Printing of a custom spacer for the popular ZMR250 quadcopter frame. Designed using OpenSCAD and Printed using an Original Utlimaker 3D Printer.
Arduino A Beginner Arduino Project - Digital Dice Roll A fun beginner project on the Arduino platform. Making a digital dice roll.
Raspberry Pi Turning a Raspberry Pi into an expensive light timer A simple beginner project to use the Raspberry Pi and Piface board to automatically turn things on and off.
The start of a dev blog So, I have been sitting on this domain for a while. http://jaydlawrence.dev It was just pointing at a simple landing page with an uncompressed image that took far too long to load and some links to GitHub, LinkedIn, StackOverflow, StackOverflow Careers, etc. It seemed like such a waste,