Hi, I’m Avery Izatt, an engineering student at Colorado Mesa University with a passion for building systems that span the digital and physical world. This website is where I document my technical projects, development experiments, and engineering work—ranging from embedded systems to server architecture.
🔧 Current Projects & Focus Areas
Over the past few years, I’ve worked on a range of hands-on and software-based projects, including:
- COSGC Rover Robot – A planetary rover designed for the Colorado Space Grant Consortium, developed with a team of CMU students. I handled chassis design, mechanical integration, and field testing. The project included design reviews with NASA engineers and iterative refinement from rocker-bogie to skid-steer systems.
- ESP32 Frog Tank Sensor Network – A live environmental monitoring system for multiple frog enclosures. Each sensor node (based on ESP32 or ESP8266 microcontrollers) reads temperature and humidity data and sends it to a Flask-based dashboard hosted on my homelab. Includes graphing, logging, and future automation controls.
- Custom 1989 Mustang Build – A long-term personal project restoring and upgrading a 1989 Foxbody Mustang. I’m rebuilding the drivetrain, retrofitting electronics, and planning ECU tuning integrations to blend classic hardware with modern tech.
- Home Server & Infrastructure (thefrogpit) – A self-hosted infrastructure stack including:
- Nginx-hosted WordPress site (this one)
- Homer dashboard for service and sensor monitoring
- Nextcloud, Plex, qBittorrent, and Kasm for remote tools and media
- Fully containerized services, automated backups, and secure SSH with key-based auth
What This Site Is
This site is equal parts:
- Portfolio: Showcasing what I’ve built, how it works, and what I learned.
- Reference: A space for notes, scripts, and solutions to problems I’ve solved.
- Logbook: Documenting ongoing builds and future upgrades.