About
All I do is build,
build, build, no matter what.
I love building things. I always have. Somewhere between the first spark of inspiration and the version that finally works, there's a moment when a thing stops being a plan and starts being real. I'm hooked on that moment. Sometimes it takes an afternoon. Sometimes it takes a year and a lot of muttering. Here are a few of the things I've made along the way.
Home Lab
- Pi rack Four Raspberry Pi 5s in a 3D-printed rack running Home Assistant, backups, monitoring, and a data server with live dashboards and a nightly AI-written digest.
- Daily digest A Raspberry Pi 4 on the kitchen counter that pulls my day into one page and reads me a morning brief when I start the coffee maker.
- Pi photo frame A Raspberry Pi 5 in a 3D-printed frame that shuffles our scanned family photos straight off the NAS.
Online Projects
- bigwes.com Quilts by Big Wes, my home as a quilter and speaker. I'm the designer, developer, and admin.
- sewtracker.com Production tracking for my quilt work. I built this to manage the personal projects and quilt requests I am working on.
- brickbybrickquilt.com A visitor map for the community quilt at the Chattahoochee Brick Company Memorial and Park. Enter your name and your brick lights up.
- scraptracker.app Built for Scraplanta. Their staff use it to log donation drop-offs, book drop-off appointments, and map where the donations come from.
- blindsurvey.net Anonymous surveys that never save names, IP addresses, or device details.
- vanduzerart.com Ink portraits and hand-lettered quotes by Robert Crane. I designed and fully built the site, with a Shopify-connected store.
15+ years of working with data. I still love the moment a messy spreadsheet finally makes sense.
I like knowing how things work, and then figuring out how to make them work better.
Guest lecturer at Howard University, CUNY Lehman & Georgia Tech.
Founder of Quilts by Big Wes and creator of SewTracker. Precision beyond the digital world.
