March 2026
Poetry Phone — Part 4: Making It a Banana
Sculpting a banana handset, painting the phone yellow, and dyeing the cord for its home at Peel in Miami.
Projects & Posts
2026
March 2026
Poetry Phone — Part 3: Kid-Proofing and Easter Eggs
Watchdog timers, crash recovery, and hiding Poemafone at 777-FILM for the O, Miami Poetry Festival.
March 2026
Poetry Phone — Part 2: Wrangling the DFPlayer Mini
A $3 MP3 module, a broken is_playing() function, and the hardware pin that saved the project.
March 2026
Poetry Phone — Part 1: Cracking the Keypad Matrix
Brute-forcing a salvaged phone keypad's pin matrix and taming a bouncy bottom row for O, Miami.
January 2026
Restoring a 1984 Tomy Omnibot (Part 3)
Adding AI vision, cloud LLM reasoning, and autonomous behavior to a vintage robot.
January 2026
Restoring a 1984 Tomy Omnibot (Part 2)
Bluetooth control via cassette adapter, web-based controller, and giving an 80s robot a modern voice.
January 2026
Restoring a 1984 Tomy Omnibot (Part 1)
Bringing a 40-year-old robot back to life — teardown, electronics inspection, and first drive test.
2025
November 2025
The Future of Work Isn't Robots. It's Makers!
Introducing Maker Cities, an NSF-funded program preparing adults for future careers through hands-on maker training.
October 2025
Producer in Residence at Maker Faire Bay Area
Hosting the Make: Live Stage, supporting 7,500 students, and awarding Blue Ribbons to standout makers.
October 2025
Dawn of Digital: The Art and Soul of Early Computing
Celebrating the design and innovation of the technologies that sparked the digital revolution.
April 2025
Lo Que Tengo Son Letras – Domino Table
Reimagining dominos with cultural phrases for O, Miami Poetry Festival.
April 2025
Poetry Robots: From Poem-o-matic to Alphie 2.0
A decade of robotic poetry with O, Miami — from receipt printers to AI-powered vintage robots.
2023
March 2023
Why You Should Attend Maker Faire Miami 2023
Celebrating creativity, innovation, and the DIY spirit with Miami's maker community.
March 2023
Judging the South Florida Regional FIRST Robotics Competition
Volunteering as a judge and meeting incredible robotics teams from Panama, Colombia, Ohio, and Florida.
2020
December 3, 2020
Building Poem Robots for O'Miami
Poetry Robots are original machines to disseminate poems through technology.
December 3, 2020
Shell Poems
3D printed shells with hidden Bluetooth speakers playing Ocean Vuong poems on Miami Beach.
May 2020
Opa Locka Light District
Poetry projectors illuminating Opa-Locka streets with poems from local students and residents.
February 2020
Open Source Face Shields
How our maker community delivered 18,000+ pieces of free PPE during the pandemic.
2019
April 17, 2019
Miami Maker Faire 2019
Where the future is now, robots reigned and high-tech dresses impressed.
2018
November 19, 2018
Why can't we all be Makers?
Spreading the maker mindset across Miami and empowering people to join the movement.
August 24, 2018
O, Miami Poem-O-Matic
A friendly bot-in-a-box that prints out a keepsake poem with the press of a button.
January 23, 2018
Building a Chladni Plate
Visualizing sound vibrations for the Frost Science Museum LATE event.
2017
July 10, 2017
Meeting & Working with a Docker Captain
Collaboration across the pond with Docker Captain Alex Ellis on an IoT project.
July 3, 2017
The Making of BMO (Part Two)
Getting the colors right and finishing BMO for Miami Maker Faire.
BMO
March 7, 2017
The Making of BMO (Part One)
Documenting the start of my BMO video game unit build for Miami Maker Faire.