Written by Natesh Narain
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2022 Retrospective

This is a small retrospective post on projects for the last year. I’m also cheating a little bit here as a my goal was to do one post per month.. and I needed one for December (I did do some cookie cutters this month, but I’ll post that in the Makes section).

Projects that went well

I made some pretty good progress on my light controllers. I consider the hardware to be more or less done and I actually have a Rev E design with minor improvements ready to be tested! I’m also working on improved diffusers for my LED panels. I’m going to do a desk revamp next year and will include the panels for some fancy RGB lighting.

I made a pretty awesome looking sword

I also got a chance to writing some Rust code for tooling and as well as my flight controller.. Leading me into…

Projects that could have been better

While I’m happy with the prototyping and designs I did for the icarus flight controller, I didn’t make much tanigle progress. There was a lot of back and forth in the scope.

With regards to 3D printing projects, well… a lot of time was wasted on silly issues. I didn’t get to make as many things as I would have liked.

Awesome Experiences

I got to visit Japan and attend ROSCon and IROS.

That was definitvely the highlight of the year and one of the best experiences of my life.

So no complaints there.

Next Year