Jacob Bokor


Embedded software engineer, hardware hobbyist, building things enjoyer


Hello, World!

Welcome to my new website! My old one hadn't been updated in *checks notes* nearly 8 years, so it was definitely time for a refresh.

I've included some stuff I've written in the previous year, along with links to my Github - I usually try to do a good job documenting my projects inside their own repositories, so there's definitely a couple things that aren't on here that are worth a look.

A couple things I've done over the last few years include:

  • The IoT device I built to solve the 'problem' of people asking in the IEEE club discord about the room being open. I used a Raspberry Pi 0w and the Python requests library to send messages in Discord via a Webhook. This was my first real experience considering the holistic system design of something, and I talk about some of my reasoning on the project page. I was also pretty happy with the resilience of the thing and the consideration I put into error handling. There are definitely several things I'd do differently now, but that's the case with every project after you finish it (Github Link).
  • The tooling I built during my time doing CCDC to automate various parts of the competition (Github Link). I developed a system for deploying a SIEM onto the competition network in under 20 minutes, along with a bunch of other scripts for competition needs. It was complimented by a bunch of people at competition, but my favorite compliment was our main competitor putting our entire repository into theirs (link).
  • Some miscellaneous PCBs I designed, some with 3D printable cases:
  • And some other things, too, that I'll hopefully be posting about shortly.

Now, in constrast to my last website I will definitely positively keep this one updated and not totally forget that it exists in three months. Probably.

Recent

JTAG for the ESP made as Easy as Possible

An adapter PCB for the ESP-Prog to make hardware debugging on ESP32 as plug-and-play as possible…

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Earlier

Making LEDs React to Music: Configuring LEDFx and Spotifyd on the Raspberry Pi

Setting up LEDFx and Spotifyd to build a Spotify Connect speaker that drives music-reactive LED strips.…

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