Welcome
Rory | Tinkerer | Builder | Problem Solver
I am an Information Networking and Telecommunications (INT) student with an emphasis on fullstack development at Fort Hays State University. My background is rooted in self-directional learning and autonomic experimentation. This site serves as an extension of my portfolio and a brief overview of selected works.
For any other additional details on my professional background, technical skills, or who I am please refer to the navigation menu.
A selected list of my completed projects:
- Installed and configured a Raspberry Pi as the core of a segmented home network.
- Built and deployed a home server for personal backups, media, and containerized services.
- Diagnosed and refurbished multiple PlayStation 3 units that had failed due to faulty capacitors.
- Assembled and configured two MagicMirror smart home displays on ARM64 and x86-64 platforms.
- Repaired e-waste devices, including a smart television with a faulty T-CON board.
- Restored and flashed modified firmware on consumer-grade laptops and routers.
Current projects:
- Porting OpenWRT to an unsupported device, including custom firmware compilation and device tree source authoring based on hardware specifications.
- Developing a proof-of-concept program to webscrape and parse grocery store weekly flyer PDFs.
- Maintaining an ever-expanding virtualized, Linux-based home lab.
- Tending to my garden
- Raising a lovely family
Holding broken packages!