Colten B.

I am 13 yrs old

I love playing with tech.

Some of my favorite things to do are:

• Have AI vibe code apps for me
• 3d print fun stuff on my A1 mini
• Work on PCB design (kinda, I lost courage after one of my projects blew up)
• Play/mess with linux

My favorite linux distros are Fedora and Ubuntu (mostly fedora though).

My favorite desktops for linux are:

• Sway Tiling WM (I think it is kinda fun and something different from the usual desktop)
• KDE Plasma (I like the similarities to windows and the extreme out of box customizability, but sometimes I want something more adventurous.)
• GNOME(This one has really grown on me, but I like it with the right tweaks,
  like Dash to Panel with GNOME topbar kept, and Arc Menu)

Click here to see my GNOME setup!

Some of my goals for when I have time are:

• Learn Python (and maybe Ruby too).
• Try to sell some of my designs on Tindie.(maybe if I have a good idea, but probably not.)

Some of my current/finished projects are:

• Electromagnetic Levitator (already designed and have all the parts, sometime I will build and tune it)

  (if it works out, It will make a strong N52 magnet float
  using a custom active attractive electromagnet system)

• WLEDnano (WIP)

  This tiny little board can run WLED using the ESP32-S3-MINI-1 chipset
  and control up to 2 sets addressable 5V LEDs (*it technically has 2 data pins, but you would probably run out of power with 2,
  but there might not be enough to run 1 strip (depending on strip length)) while being the size of your thumb
  and being able to power it with the included USB-C port. (hopefully, but probably not enough power to run bigger strips (ex. matrixes))

• D1 mini WLED shield

  This was the project that i spent weeks working and waiting, and then when I built it and plugged it in, it blew a tantalum capacitor and blew burn holes into my rug.
  The specs it was supposed to have was a ESP32 D1 mini running WLED, on a custom shield that had a LM2596-5.0 buck converter circuitry
  (probably where I went wrong, because they are complex, and I had a ton of bugs in my design),
  A fuse (put on the 5V line by accident, not the 12V line in), A level shifter for data stability,
  and a spot to plug in a MAX9814 module with a gain jumper for audioreactive WLED,
  and 2 terminal blocks for hookup (turns out I used the wrong footprint, so they didn't fit).