i'm penny, a cartoonist-turned-engineer and retro computer nerd from iowa

i work in embedded systems and studied horticulture in college.  i also like optics, music, water, and looking at the sky.  i've got a class B CDL with a passenger endorsement and the first time i installed haiku on bare metal was in 2009 on an axiotron modbook

i've got a lot of irons in a lot of fires, so i made a wiki to keep track of myself

friendship ended with personal blog, now personal wiki is my best friend

Recent Articles

see also: sitemap

• 2026-05-01: Analog Temperature Sensor

Projects

see also: my portfolio

Video Games

i make video games, mostly in godot. i'm a big fan of procedural generation!

Big Games

• Big Iowa

Small Games

• small game

Assets

• Structure Generation
• Terrain Clipmap
• Vehicles

Electronics

Robots

• Little Roomba Guy
• Autotracking Telescope
• Voron 3D Printer

FPGA

• Video-Based Robot Controller

Toys

• Morse Code Keyboard

Controlled Environment Agriculture

• Solid-State Float Sensor
• Photoperiodicity Growth Chamber

Musical Instruments

Acoustic

• The Trumpet Egg

Electronic

• Stepper Motor Synthesizer

Biology

Plants

• Firefly Petunia Crosses
• DIF Night Temperatures
• Tall Thistle

Comics

Non-Fiction

• Diary Comics
• Hourly Comics

Fiction

• Whale Fall

School Work

course work from my time at iowa state university, as a computer engineering major and a horticulture minor.

Capstone Project

• Remote-Control Hydroponics System

FPGA

• VHDL MIPS Processor
• PPM Signal Processing
• Machine Learning Accelerator
• Floating Point MAC

Embedded Systems

• Writing a Linux USB Device Driver
• Drone PID Tuning

FPGA + Embedded Systems

• Zedboard NES Emulator with VGA Output
• Zedboard Digital Camera

Misc

• Easy Schedule Viewer - A Real-Time OS Schedule Generator
• Crash Consistency All The Way Down: A Study of Nested Filesystems in Virtualized Environments
• Analog Electronic Temperature Sensor
• Spring Greenhouse Production

Auto-Biographics

see also: my semi-daily diary comics

• Books
• Clothes
• Electronics

• Recipes

• Photography

• Wordle Archive