My Projects

Odiin is a NFC Tag Emulation toolkit. It was designed to be a straight forward, easy to use tool for emulating NFC-A tags of various types. Odiin started off as a learning project as I explored the nRF52840 platform, and spent time learning about NFC as a whole. I quickly realized I enjoyed reading arbitrary data and wanted to create a device that could do that with a swanky display. Additionally, it evolved as a tool when my wife and I realized we could use it to emulate our Amiibos, so we didn't have to pull them out of the bin every time we wanted to use them for our games.

Odiin was the my first 'start to finish' hardware and firmware personal project. I had worked on several things professionally, but hadn't ever set out to build something from scratch myself. It does make use of some development platforms, but it features some of my own PCB design, and a firmware application built from the ground up. After getting help from a co-worker to design a 3D printed case, I hand-produced several prototypes for friends and family, as well as made a few available for purchase on my tindie store. I intend to revisit this project and add more features to it, as well as perhaps design a full PCB so as to not need the dev kits as the base, but likely won't until the silicon shortage is less of an issue.

If you're interested in seeing it in action, there's a short YouTube video of me quickly walking through how the prototype works.

cmdwtf.Toolkit is a small .NET library with a collection of random features. It's essentially a conglomeration of the dozens of snippets and other assorted bits of C# code I've been dragging around in one form or another for nearly two decades now. I decided to package it up so that reuse would be easier than copy-paste into whatever project I was working in at the moment. I took that a step further by actually setting up GitHub actions for CI/CD. When a commit is made with new version information, the CI/CD script will build, verify, and publish the library on NuGet automatically.

I also took the opportunity to try at targeting the largest amount of .NET frameworks I could with these projects, resulting in a package that sucessfully targets 7 different ones! When .NET 6.0 releases, I'll be sure to add that as an 8th.

KeePassDiceware is a project that was born out of seeing someone else do it well. I've been using Phoebe Code Limited's Strongbox iOS and macOS apps as my password management solution on those platforms. One of the features of their password generator, is to generate "Diceware style" passphrases. I quickly grew an affinity for the memorability of the types of passwords it generated, as well as was pleased with the configurability it offered in doing so. I decided to replicate that functionality as a plugin for KeePass Password Safe, since that's what I use on Windows.

Inkify is a .NET 5.0 command line tool to reduce image colors, dither them, and size them to fit nicely on Pimoroni eInk Displays. The idea is that you can run an image through Inkify to quantize the colors to a subset that will work with a given display. You're able to choose a desired dither algorithm, as well as a target display to spit out an image that is color reduced and resized to fit on the screen.

"Is There A Queue" is a single-function website that started off a bit as a joke. When I was actively playing World of Warcraft, every time a new expansion came out, my guild's server would constantly fill up, resulting in wait times up to hours! Some guild-mates joked that it'd be nice if there was a quick and easy way to check our server status so we could know if we needed to log into the game ahead of time, in order to try and not get caught in the queue. Thus, isthereaqueue.com was born.

As one of my first PHP projects, taking a look back at the code leaves a lot to be desired. I'm not sure if I'll revisit this project, (other than to begrudgingly make sure the Battle.net API keeps behaving,) but if I do, a complete rewrite is probably in order.

This website itself is also a small project of mine. Created as a mini portfolio as well as contact card it also serves as a test environment for tinkering with different web technologies.

I'm not web designer by trade but I do like to keep up with some of the latest technologies; for example, this site makes use of Open Graph style metadata. This results in a clean and usable embed on Twitter, Discord, and other social channels.