Over the years I gathered some experience with personal projects which I made. Here is a small collection of bigger ones I did myself.
Years In Pixels
Date: January 2022
This was a project I did as a gift for my ex-girlfriend. I spent about four months on this, writing my query engine, frontend, and API service, and wired it all together with tech I barely knew before. It was a hell of a ride but on the other side, I learned the hell out of it. Not only tech-wise. There are many life lessons wired to that project and the time programming it.
I’ve open sourced the full sourcecode and recently posted a blog post mentioning this topic here. I would love to talk with you about this. Write me here: [email protected]
- https://github.com/danielgran/yearsinpixels_frontend
- https://github.com/danielgran/yearsinpixels_api
- https://github.com/danielgran/yearsinpixels_data
- https://github.com/danielgran/yearsinpixels_business
Native-Tutors
Date: Feburary 2021
This was my very first experience in a start-up. In cooperation with the 5 Euro Business course, we received 5 Euros to found our very own company.
In a nutshell, we tried to offer zoom.us courses for teachers of schools in Germany during the start of the pandemic. Unfortunately, our selling skills were not existent.
It was a rough ride, but it was a great experience besides the fact that we did not make any profit.
Feel free to watch our video, you should pretty much understand it as long as you are a German speaker.
PowerShell Course
Date: February 2020
During my apprenticeship as a Software Developer, I got a grasp on the whole and broad functionality of Microsoft PowerShell. The point where it got interesting was when my manager came to me and asked me if I could imagine setting up a course for the other Trainees in my year. I swallowed but decided to accept this challenge. I simply love explaining complex things and therefore saw this as an opportunity to grow.
Katzenfutterautomat 24/7
Completion: February 2020
I did this project at the beginning of my apprenticeship. Overall, it was a competition among us in which we were given an Arduino development kit. I spent a couple of days brainstorming and came up with an idea to be able to feed our cats periodically.
Here you can get further information about what I did exactly, how I programmed the Microcontroller, and even download the whole code project.
Feel free to watch the following video on youtube, where you can see the robot in action!