Colten Brant

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, with its poweruser keybindings and minimalist style.)
• KDE Plasma (I like the similarities to windows and the extreme out of box customizability and how easy it is to use, but sometimes I like experiencing others too.)
• GNOME (This one has really grown on me, but I like the way Zorin OS did it.
  )
• COSMIC (COSMIC is nice because it can both tile and float, while being easy to use and sometimes, the style vibes with me.)

Some of my goals for when I have time are:

• Learn some interpreted language like Python, Ruby, or Lua.

Some of my current/finished projects are:

• Electromagnetic Levitator (mostly built, but can't figure out what's wrong with my design)

  (It was supposed to 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).

• Memory Game

  This program is wroten in python with the cmu_graphics library, a python library I was taught in school.
  It has the python interpreter and the cmu_graphics package included, so you can just click the batch file and play.
  I built it for the Hack Club YSWS fudge fudge fudge, and the symbols are all holiday themed.
  added victory sound effects and have it so the patterns are random each time.

Click here to download the windows version of the memory game!
(It will work on Mac or Linux if you have Python 3.12 and the cmu_graphics library installed.)

oh, and if you want, here is the code for my website.