Software & embedded hardware engineer. Open-source assistive devices in spare time.
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About me
Engineer by day, building open assistive devices in my spare time.
I met a teenager I could not communicate with in college. I assumed he was not smart because of that, realized I had made that assumption, got mad at myself, and built a device to facilitate his ability to communicate. Years later I decided to do it again, this time for people with unmet needs. That work is now TSSFAA and R.O.A.R. — everything I ship under the name “T-Rex”, which is my middle name.
A career’s worth of engineering and a side of garage-built oddities, in two parts.
The acronym is autobiographical: T-Rex, Successful, Slightly Famous, Autistic Adult. Read the full story on tssfaa.com →
Design docs, working drafts, and the longer-form thinking behind the devices.
I went to Chiang Mai in part to discuss the possibility of doing my PhD work at Chiang Mai University. Right now it isn’t PhD work — so I wrote a document about how it becomes PhD work and why that’s important. Started passionate, iterated with Gemini for the academic version.
The original assistive-device work that started everything — the master’s thesis behind the project.
The original design docs (from early 2025) have been converted to Markdown and committed to the NeedsBoard repo. Each one preserves the original content as a snapshot and adds an “Updated” section reflecting where the project stands today after the v3.0 release.
.menu file system.The original Google Docs links are still live for reference, but the Markdown versions in the repo are now the canonical place to read these.
Best places to find me. Email is the most reliable.
Heads up — I run an intentionally affordable mailbox, so replies sometimes land in spam. If you don’t hear back in a couple of days, please check your spam folder.