Author: Nick Nguyen
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My 2 best rides for 2019
So i started cycling in december and managed to put in 300 miles in my first month. something i never even thought was possible. What helped keep me engage was…
My latest hobby
Thanks to one my best friends for hooking me up with this mechanical masterpiece. This trek domane is made of carbon fiber so its light as a feather, and like…
Powering the tiniest stepper motor
Getting this micro bipolar stepper motor to do what I want was probably one of the hardest things Ive ever had to learn. These inexpensive stepper motors are from china…
Building my perfect motorcycle
Took me 2 weeks to build this from the ground up, this would be my 4th motorcycle, my last one had been stolen and raped before police recovered it, 2…
Tracking DMV wait times
PROJECT on-hold due to COVID-19 THIS PROJECT IS CURRENTLY NOT COLLECTING DATA BECAUSE THE DMV IS NOT OPERATING DUE TO THE COVID 19 PANDEMIC. CHECK OUT MY OC COVID TRACKER…
Orange County CA Sea level Rise Threat Assessment
According to Bloomberg and the Florida State University: To put in context 225,700 people is more than double (just under x3) the entire population of Newport Beach. Here is what…
Why using Frameworks is a MUST
A coders example of why frameworks are a MUST in application development. Frameworks reduce the amount of code required to complete a task. It reduces the overhead cost and time…
Black Fly Aircraft coming in 2019
Possible game changer in personal aviation This aircraft will be available for sale this year. Here’s why I think this aircraft stands out and could possible be a game changer…
My personal voice activated security system and more
Using machine learning/ artificial intelligence we control a security system thru voice commands, I also show you how i control my security camera using my voice as well as search youtube, google, and stream radio channels
OnPoint MMJ Management Application
OnPoint is the biggest project I ever developed. Now open source to the public. Built using YII Framework For video and pictures go here Check out the code in my…
RoboBouncer
In this case study we bring our internet skills to traditional telecommunications, in a project we dubbed the RoboBouncer. RoboBouncer is a bot that screens your phone voice phone calls…
Controlled Prescription Medication Device
For the past few years my partner (Mark Harrington) along with the contribution from Vision Miner (Robert Lent and Patrick Smith) for the 3D Printer and Geared For Speed (Lenny…
Get $10 Google AIY Version 1 working
So I bought this $10 Google Assistant from Amazon Prime. Only to find out it doesnt work as easily as advertised. It comes with a modified Raspian distro. Here are…
Syncing a lot of data from a directory to Amazon S3 Cloud
In an attempt to upload a directory 40+ Gigabytes worth of files on t0 Amazons S3. Typically I use the AWS Console, but I ran into issues, I believe my…
8 Tips for picking a better domain name
Not only do these tips coincide with easier search engine indexing, They take into consideration human psychology, human memory is vital because if your end user doesn’t recall the…
5 Ways to help ensure your websites secure
These days web sites can expect to be attacked by web bots as soon as a search engine index’s there site. The more advanced web bots will launch every known…
Hosting like the big boys…on the cheap!
Amazon is out to own the web hosting space with its new lightsail space. Lightsail offers a setup of the cloud Virtual Private Server instance, and all the trimmings that…