Personal site + project hub
Things built because
they seemed worth building.
A home for technical experiments, strange hardware, useful tools, and the occasional dead protocol dragged back into the light.
About
A deliberately small corner of the web.
This is the front door for projects hosted under smillathecat.com, plus selected work that lives on GitHub.
The common thread is usually some combination of networking, Linux, embedded hardware, old technology, reverse engineering, and the dangerous thought: “I wonder if I can make this work.”
Projects
Selected work
SignWaveZ Cardputer Programmer
Reverse-engineering a 2003 infrared LED badge protocol and replacing its long-dead Windows programmer with an M5Stack Cardputer ADV.
dircproxy
An IRC proxy/bouncer project I adopted after using it myself and taking over maintenance when the previous maintainer stepped away.
Weather
A lightweight Northern Michigan weather dashboard, including a compact layout built for a 640×480 GPi display.
amuletgen_markov
A small Python Markov-chain amulet generator.