Writing Portfolio

Wed 25 June 2025

This is where I keep a couple of my writing samples and the resultant comic pages. These two samples show that I can work with different artists with different looks.

Eye of the Beholder

This is the story of a civilization that became overcrowded and had to escape its confines. However, the confines are not what you'd expect. This comic was published as part of the anthology BeBop #1: Unexpectations by Bird's Eye Press. Art by Raymond Griffith.

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Script Sample Comic Page
Page 2 Script Sample Page 2 Comic Page

Love Connection

This is the simple story of a robot looking for love and making an explosive connection. These samples are unlettered and will appear in a future anthology called Age of Robots. Art by William Montalvo. Color flattening by Adriann Tejada.

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Script Sample Comic Page
Page 2 Script Sample Page 2 Comic Page

Porting to Pelican

Fri 14 March 2025

By default, GitHub pages uses Jekyll as the static website generator. It worked fine but I wanted to use tools based on one of my favorite languages, Python. I found the excellent tool Pelican so I decided to port my Jekyll site to Pelican.

The markdown files were the easiest …

Introducing ESP32-S3

Tue 04 March 2025

Searching for a New Processor

I wanted to find a new SoC as a replacement for the Assembled Adafruit Feather M0 WiFi - ATSAMD21 + ATWINC1500 that I used for my first try. Fortunately, I found the Expressif ESP32 chip and I purchased an ESP32­-S3­-DevKitC-1 - ESP32-S3-WROOM-2 - 32MB Flash 8MB PSRAM …

First Attempt

Thu 27 February 2025

What Did I Do?

I finished the first attempt at my clock using an Assembled Adafruit Feather M0 WiFi - ATSAMD21 + ATWINC1500 as the CPU/WiFi/RTC and an Adafruit 24LC32 I2C EEPROM Breakout - 32Kbit / 4 KB - Stemma QT as the EEPROM. The idea was to keep the parameters that need …

What Am I trying to Do

Mon 24 February 2025

I believe that successful projects often fill a need. The problem that I'm trying to solve with this project lives in my bathroom. I have a clock that is battery powered but the time drifts horribly and it doesn't track daylight savings time at all. I really want a clock …