- a in car audio system that has physical buttons and text to speech output instead of a distracting display panel. Worked really well for a few months but my soldering wasn’t (then) up to par so it eventually fell apart.
- a Bash replacement shell, which I later open sourced and now have a few users beyond myself. But it started out as a personal project not intended to be used by anyone but myself. like is in my profile (if anyone is interested)
- home automation software which manages everything from internet management through to some physical stuff like lights. At one stage I did also have Alexa skills and an Android app written to interact with it but I rarely ever use them so didn’t bother keeping those Alexa skills nor Android app up to date and just use the web portal (or SSH) the very few times I need to override any default automation.
- back in the Windows 95 / 98 era I wrote a desktop shell to replace the standard one. It was inspired by Linux desktop environments though I probably didn’t realise it at the time.
- currently I’m building a robot with my son. It has object detection, wheels, speakers and will have some rudimentary Alexa-like voice control.