Rich Infante

Implementing a Pebble Watch Night Hiking App, and the quest for similar on my Apple Watch.

I don't use my old laptop anymore.

A macro pad board I designed for the Seeed MG24, to integrate with my smart devices

I purchased this tiny air quality monitor after seeing it on social media - let's try it out!

With off-the-shelf parts, I've hacked together a battery for my Compaq SLT/286.

Some plants and things growing in my garden this year.

I recently snagged one of these, and took it on a road trip!

After a small hiatus - I got back and assembled validation boards for my MP3 player.

The on-board Dallas RTC battery is dead.

As it turns out, yes - with caveats and lots of debugging time spent!

Reverse engineering notes from some relatively sophisticated malware.

The keyboard works, but is pretty gross, and the cable is (quite literally) falling apart.

I've always wanted this feature - what would it take to make it work?

I now have album artwork and song metadata working off of the SD Card, using a program to index the files.

This monster of a laptop is almost 40 years old, what can we make it do?

A one day hack to enable easy printing over USB from my mac, to my Dot Matrix Printer.

A one-day hack to build a desk clock / alarm clock using an KB2040, and some various components I had bought earlier.

An experimental album produced using AI tools - capturing the highs and lows of a fictional startup

A mini hacking project for - js, unix timestamp, and local / utc timestamps.

Multi-Core implementation for my MP3 Player Project (with demo video)

With the new tweaked hardware architecture and some custom drivers, I now have my MP3 player able to interactively list and play music from the SD Card.

Some descriptions of my adventures getting my DAC to work.

I've been playing around with the RP2350, and how it can be programmed it in Rust.

My review of Bill Gates' Source code biography, including notes on the portions I found most interesting.

How I render the word clouds for this site using d3.js, d3-cloud, JSDom, and canvas.

My review of Walter Issacson's biography on Steve Jobs

Halloween Part 2 - DIY Gravestones by re-using polyethylene foam from packaging

Part 1 - How I build fencing for my Halloween decorations, using some basic materials.

Pyinstaller is a popular tool for "compiling" python programs into a native program.

A collection of FFMPEG scripts which can be used to convert a drm-free m4b audiobook, into one that will actually sync and play on your old iPod

A hacking experiment, where we make your browsing experience slower.

Some thoughts on self-guided learning, hiring, AI use, and how to make yourself stand out.

Some of the personal automations and shortcuts I have configured, and some suggestions for improvements to make things easier to use.

An Apple Carplay / Android Auto screen mount designed to fit in a car's cupholder

How I host my side podcast, using AWS, and Astro, directly from this site.

My 3D printable designs for for a minimal duck tape roll, utility cord reel, and AirTag holder.

I've been following Adafruit's "Fruit Jam" board that contains a RP2350 core, and I think it'd be the perfect platform for an idea I have for a back-to-basics 'BASIC' powered computer

Discussion of the recent tj-actions/changed-files action compromise, and how we could prevent it.

So, I'm starting a podcast?

How I got the Pebble command line tools, emulator, etc. to work on my Apple Silicon Mac, and Linux machine

On one of our team's Windows 11 PCs, the Vex Robotics VSCode extension would refuse to compile their code.

A simple build script exposes the git commit hash and branch name of the source code that the app was built from

Using my Flipper Zero, I was able to clone the remote for my Christmas Tree, in case I ever lose it.

I'm doing the Advent of Code challenge this year!

How to efficiently load a file into a JavaScript Buffer using React Native & expo-file-system/next.

The setup I'm using for shipping my react native apps to TestFlight, using Expo prebuild in the XCode Cloud.

A quick tip on how to skip tooltips for hidden elements using IntroJS

How I do scheduled posts for this (entirely static) site

A custom external hard-drive form factor, 3d-printed case for the RAK19007 base.

Documenting some of my adventures in getting started with Meshtastic