Brock Kaess

Smart Mirror

Coming SOON?

This project is currently in progess.

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Raspberry Pi Smart Home Servers

This little blurb is about the multiple smart home servers I have set up with raspberry pi and how they have worked for me.

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Pi Hole

This raspberry pi installation is a very cool and useful device that though it may be a bit outdated, is still a very cool design theory with practical applications for the everyday user.

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Discord Bot

My discord bot is named Cybork a.k.a. Brockli Jr. While the bork comes from the combination of cyborg for robot, and bork from a silly off brand of my nickname Brockli to Borkli, this bot is everything I am not. Talented. This bot was designed from the following youtube guided playlist and I was able to successfully create most working features for the bot. Though the functionality and implementation are a bit more limited than for example some of the more well-known and publicly accessible bots such as MEE or Rythm, this was a great success and a fun side project over the summer of 2021.

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Cryptographic Operations

In college I took MATH360 which was Mathematics of Information Security. In it we learned a lot of intro basics about cryptography and encryption. In class we were allowed to use anything we could code… thank goodness that was my major! Unfortunately, I struggled a bit trying to make methods and functions that would help me on the material when I first attempted to write the code in C++. We were dealing with such large numbers that 64 signed bits was not enough to represent them, and in C++ you must specify unsigned variables and then I had to make them of type Long Long (LL). Having ULL (unsigned long long) everywhere made for long and unreadable code, so I switched to the less verbose and more intuitive python. This worked 98% of the time. Only a few instances where my calculations, or the numbers we were dealing with, were still too big for my coding abilities and language experience.

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Code Graveyard

This is my collection of all my old coding projects from college that were so small or long ago that I can’t really remember them too much. Because of this they will likely have no description, but some may have a small description because I was really into the project or it made me cry and gave me headaches, haha! Feel free to browse around and copy paste them into your IDE or text editor to play around with and maybe try to get it running. I make no promises these work out of the box because the Computer Science Department was very particular, they wanted things to run on their machines and for their classes. Anyways, I hope you enjoy :) This is more a box of memories for me and is a lot to go through so this will probably always be a work in progress and will likely never be finished with mostly missing information. But feel free to browse around and if there’s something you like don’t hesitate to reach out!

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My First Website

Check out my first website designed and created by yours truly :)

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