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A Better Setlist solves a real-world problem my band faces: having to make and re-make setlists for every show and manually check that our chosen songs won't go beyond our allotted time.

Intended for mobile use, it stores your songs persistently to your device to allow setlists to be made quickly and easily. It also has a PDF export feature, to facilitate printing copies to take on stage.

I also wanted to practice data visualization, so I added a feature using Recharts (based on D3) to view graphs of the setlist to see how the user-set song intensity and crowd response changes as the show progresses.

Please check out the GitHub repo.

DroneTrack displays real-time information about a drone in flight using Amazon Web Services' Internet of Things. This project was sponsored by Timbergrove Solutions, LLC for the final project for DigitalCrafts.

I led the 5-person team, which included completing these tasks:

• Architecting the app's structure
• Developing the Express.js backend
• Managing data flow through the React.js frontend
• Connecting to Amazon Web Services and MapBox APIs
• Reviewing and approving pull requests on GitHub

In particular, this project taught me valuable lessons regarding connecting the front-end to the back-end in a full-stack app, managing team members in a development environment, and also pivoting toward other solutions when the initial plan is infeasible.

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The code is owned by Timbergrove Solutions, LLC., and I am not permitted to share it on my portfolio like I have on the other featured projects.

I wrote my own Internet of Things server on a Raspberry Pi to communicate with my smart outlets, whose firmware I overwrote with the open-source Tasmota. I documented everything, including step-by-step instructions for adding devices, both for practice and for my own future efficiency.

I started with three requirements (and met each one):

1. No device access to main router
2. No proprietary phone app.
3. Single-tap device activation

The basic design is an Express.js server listening for HTTP requests sent by my phone on my main WiFi, which forwards the request over MQTT on a private one-way WiFi broadcast by the Pi, to which the smart plugs are connected. This helps ensure no snooping is happening on my real network.

Please check out the GitHub repo.