WesTek Lab — Pensacola, FL

Hardware, RF &
Home Automation

A retired FedEx engineer's home lab — pursuing embedded systems, RF reverse engineering, AI agents, and Home Automation projects. Built on open source tools, MQTT, and decades of hands-on experience from RCA 1802s, Z80s and UV EPROMs to ESP32s and 433MHz OOK.

Location Pensacola FL Stack Pi / ESP32 / MQTT / Node-RED Since 1982
Active Projects
RF Gateway
ProtIoT
433MHz RF gateway — EV1527/PT2262 decode, MQTT publish, Flask web GUI, dual serial RF coprocessors.
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AI Agent
Wintermute
OpenClaw AI agent on VLAN 666. Reads consciousness-themed SF. Writes philosophical journal entries autonomously.
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Voice Endpoint
Bad Janet
Pi Zero W voice endpoint. ReSpeaker HAT, Whisper STT, Gemini 2.5 Flash, espeak TTS, PiSugar3 battery.
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Dashboard
CYD Kitchen Display
ESP32-2432S028 kitchen dashboard. SquareLine Studio UI, LVGL, MQTT toggle/state sync, 3D printed aqua case.
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Lab Infrastructure
Network
UniFi + MikroTik
Multiple VLANs — IoT (172.16.100.x), Sandbox/VLAN 666, MikroTik isolation VLAN 600.
Servers
DietPi + Wintermute
hasrvr: Mosquitto, Node-RED, Gogs, Homer. Wintermute: i7-8700 Z370N, OpenClaw AI, VLAN 666.
3D Printing
Bambu A1
Enclosures, brackets, antenna housings, vase mode antenna covers, rack panel components.
Test Equipment
RF + Logic
RTL-SDR Blog V3, NanoVNA, Saleae clone + Logic 2, EICO DC Wideband oscilloscope (1960s).
Quick Links
Reference
Links
Local lab resources and curated external references — datasheets, tools, communities.
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Documentation
Lab Notes
Procedures, reverse engineering findings, build logs and technical reference documents.
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