Teaching a hardware hacking course

 During covid lockdown, I started teaching courses (software hacking/video game development/hardware hacking)

This is a controller I showed the kids how to hack so we could automate it using an arduino.

Fixing his toy chainsaw

 He left his toy chainsaw outside and it stopped working, so I took it apart, and re-soldered a corroded terminal. 

(Not making a separate post, but had to fix a second time by de-soldering an smd button, and soldering a new smd button of similar size [had to melt a bit to get to fix with the soldering iron])

Teaching during Covid

 Found a website through a friend that let people volunteer to sign up and teach courses, so I signed up to teach a few classes.

Video game development (intro and hands on)

Hacking 101

Electronics Hacking (modifying existing electronics)

Unfortunately I can't share these videos as they contain kids faces/voices and don't want to violate their privacy, so here is an intro video I made to show off how good the engine can look.

In this demo, there's a powerpoint which is getting its data live from a google spreadsheet, then when the spreadsheet is done, the screen dissolves showing the "powerpoint" was in the unreal engine the whole time.

Made a "ring fit" to play along

 He wanted to do "fitness" with us while we played ring fit, so I cut the top of a home depot bucket lid and smoothed the inside so he could "do what we do"

Chainsaw game

Hes been in love with chainsaws lately for some reason, so I decided to make a physics based chainsaw game. It uses procedural mesh's so you can cut the logs any way you like and they fall based on physics.

Firetruck mod

Not quite done yet, but a (mostly done) quick status of my fire truck project.

Finished project:

Inspired by a project my dad made for me as a kid.



Features: 6 buttons that play different sounds from a usb powered speaker

8 leds in the top that go in a "circular" pattern

5 leds in the ceiling

7 leds on the dashboard

real ignition key that actually turns it on (plays engine start-up noise when its turned on)



Todo: fix dashboard leds

clean up wires

add door to the back for "fixing" access

add charging usb port into the gas tank port

fix issue where "too loud" sounds cause a voltage drop and reboot the esp

PVC fort

 Cut a bunch of pvc pipes to the same length, and got a bunch of different joints so we could make forts/jungle gyms.