Apps, radio systems, electronics, 3D printing, and the occasional idea that probably should have stayed on the workbench.
01 product GatewayPulse LIVE
02 app HealthHarbor BUILDING
03 app Flock Finder BUILDING
04 app Dad's Guitar Tuner BUILDING
05 lab ESP32 / LoRa / RF ONLINE
06 journey Living After Cancer ONGOING
I like software that takes something complicated and makes it easier to understand, use, or act on.
Mission control for amateur radio gateways. GatewayPulse brings gateway health, live radio state, RF telemetry, power monitoring, sessions and alerts into one clear system, with a native iPhone companion for monitoring away from the station.
A patient-first iPhone health companion designed to bring appointments from supported healthcare systems into one clear view and reconcile them against Apple Calendar without creating duplicates.
A native map-first iPhone project for finding and understanding camera locations nearby without feeling like a web page stuffed into an app.
A tuner, chord library and progression companion designed to be useful on the couch, at practice, or wherever a guitar ends up.
RF, sensors, antennas, displays, CAD and 3D printers. The projects change, but the goal is usually the same: make something useful and learn something while doing it.
Amateur radio gateways, MeshCore and LoRa nodes, satellite tracking, station telemetry and remote monitoring.
ESP32 displays, radar sensors, custom interfaces and small purpose-built devices that turn data into something tangible.
Functional parts, prototypes, fixtures and enclosures built from years of turning CAD models into real-world tools.
Current experiments and source code land on GitHub as they become useful enough to share.
Cancer changed everything. Recovery didn't end when treatment did. I'm documenting the next chapter honestly: health, weight, setbacks, progress, metrics, and what rebuilding a life actually looks like.
Read my storyDadCanMakeIT is my home for engineering, software, radio, fabrication and experiments. Some projects become products. Some become lessons. The good ones usually become both.
This isn't a polished corporate lab. It's a real workbench: ideas get built, broken, measured, rewritten and eventually turned into something better.
Portfolio, lab notebook and home base for everything I build next.
Whether it's software, radio, fabrication, maker tech, or you just want to talk shop, email is the easiest way to reach me.