added posts for microhack 2025-26, uqcs hack 2024, reflections and homelab (also testing font)

Author: Ryan Wang

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_posts/2023-01-01-MuseumOfFailures.markdown

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+---
+layout: post
+title:  "Museum of Failures"
+author: "Ryan Wang"
+date:   2023-01-01 00:00:00 +1000
+categories: reflection
+tags: reflection
+---
+Here is my Museum of Failures!
+
+# UQ Racing
+- Failed first new member PCB
+    - What I learnt: Leads were busy, so it would have been better to have it checked by another engineer. Ended up being an issue with lack of decoupling capacitor and through holes for the headers weren't 100% to size.
+
+# Coursework
+- Had to drop two courses to keep up mentally in Sem 2 of 2025
+    - What I learnt: 
+
+# Hackathons
+- 2024 Westpac Hackathon
+    - What failed
+    - What I learnt:
+- 2025 QUT Hackathon
+    - What failed: Original idea was to create a volleyball live match analysis software. Ended up stopping early
+    - What I learnt:
+

_posts/2024-08-17-UQCShack.markdown

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 categories: competitions hackathon
 tags: uqcs hackathon 2024
 ---
-# Finding.wav
-WIP!
+2024 marks the third hackathon I have participated in.
+
+### Finding.wav
+The name of our project!
+
+Like a dating app, but for making playlists.
+
+An app to help you find the songs that you actually want, or... hear me out... wav... to have on your playlists by asking you to make it while listening to the songs.
+Features
+    Choose to listen to the songs or go off just looks... how vain...
+    Swipe like any self-respecting dating app (right = yes, left = no)
+    Buttons to swipe for you, if you're too lazy to swipe those matches
+    Skipped a song right at the end? It's added to the playlist since you liked it enough to listen
+    Exporting of playlists as .m3u, saved to your music folder
+    Fully offline (works off your downloaded songs)
+    Fully-Functioning Playhead Seeker (ignore the slight jitters, drank too many energy drinks)
+
+Card (Dating-app swiping) animation and functionality from Twyper API Level: 31
+
+The repo is available [here](https://github.com/Alice-Lesmes/Finding.Wav).
+
+{% include figure.html img_path="/assets/images/2024/finding.png" alt_text="" caption=""%}
+
+
+### Team
+- Ryan Wang - UI and exporting
+- Alice Lesmes - Music Recommendation Algorithm and Data Management

_posts/2024-12-12-FirstYearReflect.markdown

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+---
+layout: post
+title:  "First Year Reflection"
+author: "Ryan Wang"
+date:   2024-12-12 18:55:16 +1000
+categories: reflection
+tags: 
+---
+First year marks the first year of coding that I ever did in my life.
+
+In the first semester I started out with 2 Comp Sci / 2 Japanese.
+
+In the second semester I started out with 3 Comp Sci / 2 Japanese. This sort of academic prowess is probably something I cannot reproduce ever again, with all five courses hitting 7s. CSSE2010 (Introduction to Computer Systems) was particularly enjoyable, and I've been still working as a Casual Academic for this course (as of May 2026).

_posts/2025-04-17-microhack.markdown

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 layout: post
 title:  "Microcontroller Hackathon 2025"
 author: "Ryan Wang"
-date:   2026-04-17 00:00:00 +1000
+date:   2025-04-17 00:00:00 +1000
 categories: competitions hackathon
 tags: microhack hackathon 2025
 ---
-WIP!
-2025 marked the second year of my degree
+2025 marked the second year of my degree, and my first participation of the Microcontroller Hackathon.
 
+Since it was difficult to train a small model that could fit onto the microcontroller's flash memory, a lot of the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) was done on a computer, and an ESP32-S3-CAM was used to send image messages over. I still decided to go a full No-AI route when doing this, so it was a painful Saturday night of constantly trying to fight the complexities of what functions I should use, as ESP-IDF was in a "migratory" state at this time with many of its wi-fi functions being deprecated.
+
+Overall, this project taught me quite a bit about using the ESP-IDF tool, and also programming the ESP32 in C. It's definitely not as friendly as using Arduino Core in Arduino IDE (in fact Arduino Core is just all wrappers for ESP-IDF), but it does allow finer control over the microcontroller. 
+
+Interested people can go take a look at the [repo](https://github.com/NagisaHere/2025-MCU-HACK).
+
+### Team
+Credits to the team!
+- Ryan Wang: HTTP Web server and Camera
+- [Cielo Nicolosi](https://www.linkedin.com/in/cielo-nicolosi/): Text Recognition, translation and text-to-speech

_posts/2025-08-20-Keyboard.markdown

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+---
+layout: post
+title:  "Keyboard Project"
+author: "Ryan Wang"
+date:   2025-08-20 18:55:16 +1000
+categories: hackathon
+tags: uqcs hackathon 2026
+---
+
+WIP! Photos to come soon

_posts/2025-12-12-SecondYearReflect.markdown

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+---
+layout: post
+title:  "Homelab"
+author: "Ryan Wang"
+date:   2026-01-01 00:00:00 +1000
+categories: 
+tags: reflection
+---
+Here is all the services I use in my homelab!
+
+For the most part, this runs in a cheap laptop that is running 24/7 on CasaOS.
+
+## Running Services
+- Tailscale
+- Gitea
+    - Sometimes used for solo projects
+- Syncthing
+- Cloudflared (for SSH)
+- Nginx Reverse Proxy Manager
+    - SSL certs via letsencrypt and cloudflare api
+- Nextcloud
+    - Personal cloud
+- Vaultwarden
+
+## Services I'm trying to configure
+- Bambuddy
+- Navidrome
+- Authentik 
+- LocalStack

_posts/2026-01-01-Homelab.markdown

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 Sunday we finalised everything and recorded a demo video of it working at the last minute. Turns out having a high baud rate with jumper wires wasn't really the best idea (mmm resistance). We also had a backup option using a bomb game in case the VR stuff didn't work, so we utilised it for our presentation instead.
 
-(WIP) You can find a quick demo of our project below.
+(WIP) You can find a quick demo of our project below, repo [here](https://github.com/Alice-Lesmes/MicroHack2026).