Project Ideas

Last updated: August 06, 2023

You can find my writings about projects I actually have built at the projects section of my website. This page will list projects I think would be nice to have or are just outright silly ideas that I periodically come up with.

• Wall-mounted Display

To show expected weather, tides, upcoming celestrial events like new moons or full moons especially those that set early in the night over the water, sun set coinciding with the distant island in my view like a soltice or my own house, planes & ships traveling nearby, etc.

• Robotic Signal Mirror for Morse Code

• English-to-Aussie Browser Extension

• Autonomous Delivery Drone (intra/inter island versions)

Projects that aren’t computers

• Sun Dial

I want to build a sun dial for my home, but use modern software to construct one perfect for my location and to accurately tell the time, month, etc by the sun’s shadow alone. I hope to respect old tradition and include decorations and a motto like Tempus Fugit. My original spark for this project was realizing I can measure the travel of the sunsets day by day. The sun traveled north behind nearby mountains without me noticing this year, months later it returned to open horizons without me noticing how fast it was traveling south and I missed the day it cleared the mountains. I feel I want to track the progression of sun in a real way that only a sun dial can do. A great software called ShadowsPro would make it possible.