DAWN
A locally hosted AI assistant project built around privacy, practical automation, and learning how far a home-grown agent can be pushed without handing the keys to the Internet.
// BUILD • BREAK • LEARN • REPEAT
I make things.
Sometimes they even work.
Automation, local AI, electronics, fabrication, 3D printing, networking, and whatever other rabbit hole looked like a good idea at the time.
MAKER // TINKERER // PROFESSIONAL BUTTON-PUSHER
LOCAL AIϟ
AUTOMATIONϟ
ELECTRONICSϟ
3D PRINTINGϟ
NETWORKINGϟ
FABRICATIONϟ
LOCAL AIϟ
AUTOMATIONϟ
ELECTRONICSϟ
3D PRINTINGϟ
NETWORKINGϟ
FABRICATIONϟ
// CURRENT OBSESSIONS
Projects
Some are useful. Some are ridiculous. The best ones are both.
Home Automation
Making lights, sensors, dashboards, and assorted smart-home hardware cooperate whether they intended to or not.
Retro + Raspberry Pi
Tiny computers doing unnecessarily elaborate things: retro gaming, storage, displays, controllers, custom cases, and more.
Fabrication + Cosplay
3D printing, LEDs, wearable electronics, props, and the occasional design that probably should have stayed a sketch.
// WHY “THAT ENGIN3RD”?
Curiosity with a screwdriver.
Back when I was in the Air Force, I was a Flight Engineer. I was also enough of a nerd about technical stuff that, eventually, the two words got welded together: Engineer + Nerd = Enginerd.
That Engin3rd became the name for the things that followed — projects I build, fix, modify, overcomplicate, take apart, and occasionally put back together correctly.
The point is not to pretend every project is polished or revolutionary. It is to learn something, make something useful, and document enough of the chaos that the next version is better.
— That Engin3rd