A tech journal
Hi.. I'm Balaji, an Android engineer by day, a curious tinkerer by night. This is where I journal what I build: little experiments, hardware hacks, LLM apps, and the small annoyances I keep solving with code.
Fresh entries from the workbench.
I kept opening my phone to check what Cooper was doing at home, then getting pulled into notifications and doomscrolling. So I connected an RTSP camera stream to a local LLM and let my self-hosted assistant send short watch notifications instead.
How I turned an unused laptop into a 24/7 home AI server with Ubuntu Server, SSH, Tailscale and CasaOS.
IoT · ESP32Built with an HC-SR04 ultrasonic sensor, ESP32, Firebase Functions and Android push notifications.
Most of what I build starts with a small itch: a thing I wish worked better, a curiosity I can't shake. Writing it down forces me to think clearly, and maybe leaves a trail someone else can follow.
Open to interesting Android, AI and product engineering conversations.