With a full-time job, a toddler, I may not need much sleep to get going, but there are still more project ideas piling up than time to pursue them all. I thought it would be a good idea to compile them somewhere.

Books

  • 2024
    • The Staff Engineer’s Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change - Tanya Reilly
    • Designing Data-Intensive Applications - Martin Kleppmann

Electronics

  • 2024
    • La CaméràPiaf, an rpi-based camera to point at a bird feeding house, that takes pictures of birds and sends them to an email address. This would be a present for my father-in-law, he loves his birds! 😄

Mechanical Engineering

  • 2025
    • not sure about the project itself, but I'd like to play with a few step motors, a camera, and a bunch of machine learning in order to build a robotic arm somewhat capable of doing simple (for a human) tasks.
  • 2024
    • a household gravity battery not a viable energy storage solution after all

Games

  • 2024
    • a caesar 3 derivative board game! I explain why I dropped the ball on this one here

Software Dev

  • 2025
    • a UI testing framework for Godot
    • Yet Another Drawing App, a clone of excalidraw where elements can be tagged and displayed according to selected tags
  • 2024
    • an asset maker - successor to Asset Forge -> I started Game Asset Crafter!
    • leverage https://github.com/VoylinsGamedevJourney/gozen_lite to make a godot-based shrimp controller doesn't support streams