Projects

Pico-4WD

My first project is the one you see above. It is a kit from SunFounder that utilizes the Raspberry Pi Pico named the Pico-4WD. It includes four servo motors, a greyscale sensor, LED strips, an ultrasonic module, and a Pico RDP to give it internet connectivity. It is controlled through an application that can receive several widgets to control the features that the Pico-4WD provides. The project came with a lot of guidance and put into practice various libraries and coding techniques that I picking up such as, json, functions, assignment statements, loops, etc...

Weather Automation

A smaller project that I have taken up is to create an hourly weather update using a Pico-W and the OpenWeather API. The idea is to make the raspberry microcontroller connect to the internet and fetch weather data using an API key. The Pico will be on a hourly loop and slice the incoming json data to display; the current weather, weather "feels like", and weather condition.

Raspberry PI NAS

Built my own network-attached storage using a Raspberry Pi 4 and Open Media Vault. The image is used to create a shared folder within my home network that can be accessed by anyone who has shared permissions. I gave it a static IP address on my home router and attached an external HDD so that files located on the shared drive can be easily accessible on my desktop or laptop.

PI Hole Server

Setup a pi hole server on a Raspberry PI 4 to integrate a network level ad-blocker on my home network and act as the main DNS server to block site trackers and malware while slightly increasing network performance. Out of all my projects, this was by far the most useful one as it highly improves the internet surfing experience for the household. The dashboard allows me to monitor any suspicious domains and blacklist them.

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