A small selection of recent projects

tello-rust

Tello-rust was my first small to medium sized project in Rust. It is a wrapper for controlling a DJITello drone using the Ryze Tello sdk. The library works as a wrapper for this SDK and works over a UDP port. The aim of it was to translate DJITelloPy from Python to Rust as a way of learning a bit about a new language. I uploaded version 1.0 of the library to crates.io (the rust community's crate registry) on the 14th of September 2024 and by the 19th it had garnered over 350 downloads.
Creating this Rust library to interact with the Tello drone has taught me several important concepts. I've gained a deeper understanding of Rust's ownership and borrowing model, particularly when using Arc and Mutex to safely share state across threads. I've also become more proficient in handling errors and optional values through Rust's Result and Option types. Additionally, managing state using HashMap and custom enums like StateValue has helped me appreciate Rust's ability to build safe, performant, and reliable systems.

Portfolio Website

My portfolio is the first website I'd worked on. It was built using Next.js, FlutterFlow, ChakraUI and was written in Typescript. It taught me to design my own page and how to style so that a site may look good on small, medium or large devices.
The point of this portfolio page is to provide more information about myself and allow me to display some projects that I am proud of in a little more detail. If you're reading this and you have any feedback you might want to give, please feel free to contact me as I am always looking to improve.

Beesprite

Beesprite is a pixel painter application I collaborated on in my second year of University. Each group had to draft up a design report and a timeline which we could then use as a basis for our projects. I took a leading role in organising the tasks and deadlines for every member of the group and we managed to turn in a successfully completed project with expected functionality including undo/redo, import/export feature for a couple of different image types and fully customisable theme colours.
Working on this project taught me good leadership and communication. It also helped build good version control practises where we would work on each new feature as its own feature branch, and then peer review eachothers code before accepting any pull request. This project also gave me the chance to improve my Java programming. If I were to remake this project, one thing I would definitely change is our codebase. As we were fairly new to semi large Java programs, our directory management was not ideal.