Frederick Dopfel 

I have been a user of the Apple watch since Series 1, and as a quantified-self nerd, I love having continuous step and heart rate data...

Although voice assistants are a great resource for controlling a smart home, they are by no means perfect, and are often slower than just...

I have always been interested in productivity tools to help build, maintain, and strengthen my social and professional network, and...

My home has always been a playground for IoT devices. I have over 90 assigned IP addresses at any given time on my network, with products...

Dogecoin is perhaps the friendliest cryptocurrency on the internet, and has built a strong community that is open and welcoming to...

I have been interested in blockchain technology since early 2015, when I bought Bitcoin for $600 and was working at Strategic Business...

A lot of people don't understand why I would ever want to hack a Peloton bike. After all, there are a lot of people who love the bike and...

How I hacked my home to always have perfect air quality

I built my workhorse computer around 5 years ago, after the logic board on my 2010 MacBook pro died (a known issue caused by Apple's...

Somehow, I managed to crack the glass on my Pixel 3XL. Not the front glass on the screen, mind you, but the glass back of the phone. This...

During my time at Stanford, I was an active member of the Mars Rover Team within the Stanford Robotics Club (http://roboticsclub.stanford...

Excited after my success with PiHole and it's privacy-centric ad-blocking DNS, I felt empowered to do more. The thing about living with...

My next step for continuous improvement of my home network was to build a DNS server using the popular DIY-system, PiHole. A DNS server...

Like many people renting in older buildings, there never seems to be enough hot water, and my apartment is no exception. I had always...

Keys suck. I could write a whole post about how easy they are to copy (even with just a photo) or circumvent altogether. However, this...

As a new Tesla owner, I am always excited about getting the latest software update (at time of writing, anxiously awaiting version 9.0),...

DeepFake is an application that uses convolutional neural nets to generate a map of a person's face, then place that map over an actor in...

Valentines day may be a "Hallmark holiday" to most, but that doesn't mean that it can't be a fun one. I happen to be a big fan of...

After joining the Stanford Student Space Initiative high-altitude balloon team, one of our first projects was to build and launch our own...

One of my first projects was creating a synchronized media library between multiple computers in multiple homes. The system worked well,...