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2024

Black Beauty
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The next-generation of hats, featuring an updated controller, power pack, and a refined method of construcion. It comes with it’s fair share of bugs, however the hardware itself is sound, and light enough to comfortably wear for long periods.
3000 mAh Power Pack
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A much smaller, lighter source of power than my previous devives. It uses a TP4056 module for charging, together with a couple of mosfets, and a zener diode to enable USB-Passthrough. This has proven safe, yet without voltage regulation I’ve encountered instabilities (and data corruption), so this is as much about what’s been done well, as what must be done better.

2023

Iterations
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A series of three prototypes - based upon the ESP8266, ESP32-S2, and ESP32-S3. These were built to help me explore the limitations pertaining to processing power, refine the power supply/battery management system, and to provide me with enough devices to test out the faculties for commmunication between devices, to enable wireless synchronization, and ultimately enable me to realize the core concept behind this project.
2023.ryanhorricks.com
The 2023 version of my website.
eMotors Direct
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Motiometer - IoT Sensor Project. Work etailed implementing Push Notificatios using a PHP Symfony Back-End, a React Front-End, and a Java Android App that collectively communicate, and process data collected from a swarm of ESP32 microprocessors.
Alpha
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Picking up where I left off in Lit Glamour Alpha, I proceeded to finish construction of the Alpha. Built using the ESP32-S3, It includes a microphone, enabling captivating sound-reactive visuals. Featuring a 5000mAh battery, it is in fact too heavy to comfortably wear for long periods (and yet I convinced someone to do it anyways).
The MARA Group
Brought on as the Sole Technical Hire to perform QA on a SAAS Application in the Virtual Health Space, developed by an outsourced Ukrainian development firm. This was my first startup experience, and I got to wear a lot of hats, including defending our rationale against the SR/ED board, and substantial efforts in creating a Product Roadmap, and Bug-Tracking System in Jira, creating designs in Figma, and developing websites in WebFlow.
Lit Glamour Alpha
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An ambitious plan: Design, Develop and Scale a product from 0 to a dozen units within 6 months… Typical startup energy. I didn’t achieve my goal, however I figured out what I really wanted to make, and set the stage for everything to come. This is the story of the first six months.

2022

Pharmacokinetics
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A desktop app I built to project future blood levels of a medication, based upon known values for time, dosage history, and a given substances pharmacokinetics. Built with an Angular/Electron Front-End, and a Python/Django back-end (after a brief experiment with Go).
Sustainergy
Opti-Mized - Building Energy Usage Dashboard for IoT Sensor Project. Featuring a Python/Django Back-End, and an Angular Front-End, I was responsible for turning a glorified tech-demo into a functional Full-Stack Application.