Recent Projects | Freddy Dopfel

Mar 13

Apple Watch Repair

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...

Mar 7

Building Home Control Terminals

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

Sep 24, 2020

Building a Chat Server

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

Sep 6, 2020

HomeAssistant: Consolidating my smart home ecosystem under one roof

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...

Aug 11, 2020

Dogecoin Node on a Raspberry Pi

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

Aug 6, 2020

Building my own Cryptocurrency: FreddyCoin

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

Jul 20, 2020

Hacking a Peloton

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...

Jul 8, 2020

Climate Control - The Smart Home Way

How I hacked my home to always have perfect air quality

May 18, 2020

The FrankenBook Pro

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...

Apr 30, 2020

Smartphone Repair: Third Time's the Charm

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...

Jul 17, 2019

Stanford Mars Rover Team

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

Apr 18, 2019

Building a VPN

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...

Apr 5, 2019

Personal DNS Server with PiHole

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...

Mar 21, 2019

In Search of a Hot Shower

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

Feb 16, 2019

Living a Keyless Life

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...

Oct 23, 2018

Connecting the Tesla to Public Wi-Fi

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

Mar 28, 2018

DeepFaking Elon Musk into Iron Man

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...

Feb 13, 2018

3D Printing Valentines Chocolates

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...

Feb 2, 2018

High Altitude Balloon Project

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

Jan 26, 2018

Building my NAS Media Server

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

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