Savo's Site

Personal Projects

Projects I have decided to undertake for myself, for whatever reason; usually since I want to learn something new or feel they’d be cool.

Edit Machine

Page Last Updated: July 25, 2023

Status: Complete

Period: May 2023 - May 2023

Client: Bennett

Tags: hardware prototyping recycling 555

Made a little protoboard circuit from components I had to track one’s goal completion.

This Website

Page Last Updated: January 3, 2023

Status: Ongoing

Started: December 2021

Client: Viewers like you

Tags: css html HUGO

I made this website from scratch, would you like to peer behind the curtain?

Hardware Clock

Page Last Updated: July 10, 2023

Status: Finished. Distracting visitors.

Period: November 2021 - June 2023

Tags: clock hardware KiCad 555

A modular clock composed entirely out of discrete logic chips I got secondhand. Significantly more debugging than expected!

TTC Check Board

Page Last Updated: January 8, 2024

Status: Feature Complete. Might add new features though.

Period: May 2021 - March 2022

Client: My roommate and I

Tags: embedded ESP32 SSL wifi

Developed a dedicated embedded system to serve me predictions for when buses would arrive at selected stops.

Drone ESC

Page Last Updated: January 6, 2024

Status: In Progress

Started: May 2020

Tags: BLDC drone embedded ESC KiCAD

Making a custom electronic speed controller for my drone’s motors

  • ESC V5 - Newest revision to the ESC. Largely designed to use the available MOSFET drivers.
  • ESC V4 - Another major revision to the BLDC ESC, mainly changing to the modern ATtiny family of microcontrollers.
  • ESC V3 - A revision of ESV V2 with the voltage regulator removed
  • ESC V2 - My first actual attempt at building an ESC. A shrunk down revision of the first.
  • ESC V1 - My first attempt to make a sensor-less ESC for my drone

Drone Flight Controller

Page Last Updated: December 29, 2022

Status: Programming, focusing on ESC

Started: May 2020

Tags: control drone imu

Making a a custom flight controller for my drone to work with my custom ESCs and potentially other electronics.

  • Flight Controller V2 - My more powerful STM32 based version of a flight controller. Currently on hold.
  • Flight Controller V1 - My first flight controller design. Based on an ATmega328P so I could adapt many open-source drone projects to it if needed.

Prototype Bus Stop Checker

Page Last Updated: January 8, 2024

Status: Finished

Period: January 2020 - April 2020

Client: My roommates

Tags: embedded ESP32 wifi XML

Proof of concept to check for busses around my home. Base for TTC Check board project.

Ornaments

Page Last Updated: January 4, 2024

Status: Complete

Period: November 2019 - December 2019

Client: Friends and family

Tags: hardware toy 555

Made some festive blinking lights to hand out. Used the 555 timer!

gameBOI

Page Last Updated: January 3, 2023

Status: Completed

Period: May 2019 - May 2019

Tags: Arduino EAGLE embedded toy

A small handheld capable of offering several user selectable games to be played using the two buttons and 32 LEDs that form a display. Created in under two weeks!