• In the last 20 years I have been a tech enthusiast.
• In the last 15 years I completed a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology.
• In the last 10 years I worked in Human Services for non-profits and Government.
• In the last 05 years I became a dad (twice).
• In the last 03 years I launched a small business.
• In the last 01 years I have started to pursue my dream in learning web development.

With a few raspberry pi's, many late nights, and more than a few headaches I started my journey to into writing code, learning git, and building simple electronics with the following projects.

1. An interactive button board that I made for my kids that ran off a raspberry pi. I found lightshowpi that was designed to make christmas lights dance to music. By studying the code and following other people's implementations, I hacked together my own program written in python that allowed me to loop through my own sound files each time different buttons were pressed.
2. A photobooth that I made using a raspberrypi, touchscreen, arduino, LEDs, and an old computer power supply. The photobooth allowed you to connect any digital camera that was supported by the gphoto2 to the raspberry pi and take photos through a locally hosted web app. My fork was primarily to customize the look of the webapp to meet my needs.
3. A raspberry pi camera project, PiCameraBox, written in python to control a camera module so that I could take pictures, record time-lapses, or capture video inside my laser engraver.

Mixing technology, lasers, and traditional mediums, Dither & Etch is a locally owned and operated laser engraver specializing in art, decor, and commissioned pieces.