Jake DeCamp

Building things, asking questions, and writing about whatever I find on the way.

Recent Posts

Product

I Gave AI Eyes, Ears, and a Mouth With Meta Glasses

August 21, 2026

How I connected Meta Glasses to an AI assistant that can listen, speak, and see what I see while keeping my hands free.

Engineering

Specialized E-Bike + Meta Glasses = Dataset

August 2, 2026

How I combined first-person video from Meta Glasses with Specialized e-bike telemetry to create a synchronized dataset from my rides.

Product

Flying Drones With Natural Language

July 2, 2026

A real-hardware demo: one typed objective became an operator-supervised PX4 flight, from arm and takeoff through movement, RTL, landing, and final verification.

Engineering

Autonomous Drone Buildout: Phase Four — Real Flight

June 30, 2026

Moving from using the remote controller to a fully software-led flight with video to capture the console and aircraft.

Engineering

Autonomous Drone Buildout: Phase Three — Real Hardware

June 18, 2026

Taking the MCP/PX4 stack off the simulator and onto a real Holybro S500 — from bench telemetry and RC failsafes to a failed first hover, a prop-layout diagnosis, and the first accepted hardware hover.

Engineering

Autonomous Drone Buildout: Phase Two — Missions and Vision

May 12, 2026

Turning a flyable drone into one that can run missions and see — adding mission intelligence, search patterns, and a photorealistic simulator with cameras.