// Projects
Active
builds.
All open source. All documented as I go. The flagship runs 52 weeks; side projects ship when they ship.
Flagship Active 52 weeks
Autonomous Quad 2026
A from-scratch autonomous quadcopter. Cube Orange+ on PX4 with a single companion computer (Jetson Orin Nano Super, likely — decision post W5). Goal: a drone that flies a waypoint mission with vision-based obstacle avoidance, GPS-denied fallback navigation, and a fully open-source build.
- › 12-month roadmap from a pile of parts to flight
- › All BOM, code, CAD, and tuning logs public
- › Sim-first development in Gazebo Garden
- › ~$1,750–2,550 total project cost
- › Single-companion architecture
// Build Stats
- week
- 01 / 52
- status
- manifesto live
- posts
- 3 / 52
- budget
- $0 / $2,500
- license
- Apache 2.0
// Side Projects
Planned
ESP32 companion sensor node
A cheap ($20) WiFi-attached IMU/magnetometer/GPS node for distributed sensing on outdoor builds. Pluggable into ROS2 over UDP. TBD.