Fieldbench · Off the clock
When I'm not building operational software for businesses, I'm usually chasing fallen weather balloons, flying airplanes, carving terrain data, or soldering tiny displays.
01 · Weather balloons & community zine
Twice a day, weather stations launch instrument packages to the edge of space. I built live telemetry and trajectory tools to track them into trees and plains—and edit a four-issue community magazine of recovery stories.
02 · Flight decks & physics
Multi-engine and instrument-rated commercial pilot. Cockpits shaped my taste for calm, high-contrast displays that stay legible when upstream feeds fail.
03 · LiDAR, maps & physical fabrication
Pipelines that stitch raw Tennessee LiDAR and Great Lakes bathymetry into watertight 3D yard models and physical carved relief objects.
04 · Small computers & edge vision
Pocket-sized Linux terminals with physical keyboards, MicroPython airport weather tickers on Pimoroni/Cardputer screens, and Raspberry Pi OpenCV + ADS-B aircraft trackers.
05 · Illustrated books, family tools & teaching
Co-creating illustrated books with my kids, turning folder photos into structured trading cards, podcasting on pro-human AI, and teaching young builders.
Looking for the full chronological paper trail or the 30 visual studies?