Things We Make

I’ve surveyed over 12,000 trees in parks across the five boroughs of NYC, mostly over the past month.

I made a one-tap solution for reporting roadway potholes to the NYC DOT using an ESP32 microprocessor, a GPS module, some long-range radio and just a pinch of agentic AI.

I made a homebrew photo booth for my oldest friend’s wedding in a marathon 48-hour one-man hackathon.

Doubling-down on hyperlocal data after my recent drawbridge-sensing project, I present the Gowanus Data Dredger, a streaming real-time repository of maritime-skewed neighborhood data about everyone’s favorite Superfund site.

Last week, my brother and I took in a screening of the 1976 classic Network that just happened to be captioned.

I built a tool for determining if the Hamilton Avenue Bridge over Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal is open or closed, in real-time.

For my niece’s birthday this year, I decided to give her the gift every 6-year-old secretly dreams of: an old rotary phone!

Last week, the MTA expanded its rollout of the new open-gangway train, known as the R211T, to the G line.

I like a good backstory.

It’s Christmas here in New York, my favorite day of the year.

I built a tiny NES emulator that packs a surprising punch: 600 games and a capacitive touchscreen, all stuffed into the shell of an original NES cartridge.

Happy Halloween!

I learned long ago that my capacity for nostalgia extends well beyond the limits of my own lived experiences.

I spent this summer building a new app, for a machine that hasn’t been on the market since 1980 and wasn’t built to support graphics, sound, connectivity or even lowercase letters, sold by a company that went bankrupt a decade ago, tailor-made for an audi…

I made a Spotify remote that tweaks song recommendations across six axes, based on Spotify’s audio features: danceability, energy, acousticness, duration, valence and popularity.