About
About Me
Welcome to my website! I am Kyle, author of this website where hopefully you will find great pleasure and utility in the things have and continue to upload here.
I am currently a Senior at Florida Polytechnic University going for a Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering. Many of my Mechanical Engineering Peers have found it unusual that I am not going for a Computer science degree. My second favorite comment that I have recieved was that I am a Computer Science Major in desguise when I was coding a robot arm in Mechatronics Systems. It won't beat the funniest comment where one of my project partners actually called me a wizard when I got our self balancing robot to work for the first time. I could have gone for a Computer Science or Computer Engineering degree and be getting through most of my classes a lot more easily, but I wouldn't be gaining as much. I am competent enough in computer science to where I could fumble my way through most problems in the field with time and effort, and that's good enough for me. The reason I went for a Mechanical Engineering degree is because I suck at it. I am bad at Mechanical things, but I want to be good at it. It is really satisfying to create something that is real and affects the world around you. I want to design real things and create real things that will have utility; things that will improve people's lives. In order to do that I need to get better at designing and creating Mechanical things.
About this website
This website was made back in 2019. I had finished technical College in 2018 where I learned to code and in 2019 I was trying to apply what I learned to make things. I had no school and very little work, so lots of free time to fiddle around with things like Arduino, Raspberry Pi, 3D printing, and this website. For a year the website was left unchanged. Then COVID hit; I lost my job at the start of the pandemic, so I had a lot more free time. I created an automatic garden watering system with a raspberry pi zero while doing Calculus 1 over the summer. At the end of that experiment this website was left with it's biggest update in a while; they're was a gui added that showed a 24 hour chart of the moisture levels read by the garden watering system. I used the Garden Waterer as a part of an assignment for Calculus 2 in the fall. Spring of 2021 I decided to go to FLorida Polytechnic University because it was close to home, seemed to take itself seriously, and most importantly was affordable. I used the website to as a portfolio and again showed off my garden system in that. I have no idea whether that actually helped, but I was accepted pretty quickly. After I left for University my website remained at home for a year where it was impractical to work on it. First I had to use VNC veiwer to get in to my rasberry pi that was waiting on the local network. Then I would have to ssh from the rasberry pi into the website in order to edit the files. In 2022 my website kept getting unplugged at home. Luckily I am now living in a place that has it's own router, so I was able to bring the website to University. Unfortunately the router would not port forward to the old laptop that my website was running on, so I installed linux on an old desktop and got the website running off of that. Now that it's here I can reasonbly work on it in my free time. If I have enough of it then there will be a huge increase in the amount of content accessible here.