Adrian Rubio

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September 19, 2025

ESP32 Environment Monitor

Hello and welcome! During this past month after Shipwrecked, I have built an ESP32 environment monitor, completed a hardware project with my dad, and started a very interesting project with my brother.

August 12, 2025

Shipwrecked

Hello and welcome! This past weekend was one of the coolest experiences of my whole life. I shipped three projects in four days, and met some incredible people along the way.

August 06, 2025

Arduino Security System

Hello and welcome! During this week, I designed and built my final project before Hack Club Shipwrecked: an Arduino Security System.

May 31, 2025

My AI PDF Reader: The Story of How (and Why) I Built It

Hello and welcome! In this post I'm going to tell you the whole story of my AI PDF reader – like, how I built it and the reasons why. This project was a pretty wild ride with some tough challenges and fun wins, and seeing it finally work just how I wanted is awesome!

April 27, 2025

Hack Club Shipwrecked

Hello and welcome! This week, I wrapped up reviewing the SSD object detection model and was just about to dive into the line-following model, when a message in the Hack Club announcements caught my attention.

April 20, 2025

Inference Using SSD Weights

Hello and welcome! This week, I took a deeper dive into last week's model, did some additional training, and let me just say, the inference code made predictions, and they’re genuinely impressive!

April 06, 2025

Finishing SSD Model and Training

Hello and welcome! This week, I completed the model and began the debugging process, which involved making numerous changes across the entire system. After that, I kicked off the first full training run, made some adjustments based on the results, and retrained the model. So far, the results are looking very promising!

March 09, 2025

ML-Rover

Hello, and welcome! In this post, I’ll be sharing what I’m currently working on; the ML Rover. This project involves building AI models for my Mars rover (Adeept Picar-B), combining machine learning with robotics for an exciting challenge! We are now up to day so consider this the weekly post.

March 08, 2025

Mindful

Hello, and welcome! In this post, I’ll be explaining Mindful; the project I built for High Seas—and how four other Hack Club members helped me bring it to life.

March 08, 2025

High Seas

Hello, and welcome to a recap of what High Seas was and what happened during it. In this post, we’ll dive into what High Seas was all about. I’m still catching up with my blog posts, so consider this a look back as I work my way to the present.

March 08, 2025

Introduction Post

Hello, and welcome to my first blog post! In this post, I’ll be reflecting on my journey over the past few years in the world of coding. I'll also give you an overview of how my blog will be structured and the goals it aims to achieve.