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viko.dev

Servers, antennas, and printers, run out of a bedroom in Pittsburgh.

1692.600 1694.100 MHz · hrit 1695.600

About

High schooler. I spend most of my time on self-hosted infrastructure, RF reception, and anything with a circuit board I'm not supposed to open.

Currently: receiving live weather imagery from GOES-19 with a dish in the yard, running a modded Minecraft server for friends, and slowly converting everything I own to NixOS.

Projects

  • GOES-19 ground station

    rf ● live

    HRIT weather imagery from geostationary orbit. Grid dish, SAWbird+ LNA, RTL-SDR, SatDump over SDR++ Server. ~5.5 dB SNR, full-disk decodes.

  • mcapollo

    infra ● live

    NeoForge 1.21.1 modded Minecraft server on dedicated hardware. Tuned JVM flags, Spark profiling, automated restarts via systemd timers.

  • local LLM inference

    ai ○ wip

    AirLLM running big models on a laptop RTX 5060. Self-built Gradio GUI with model selection, fully offline.

  • self-hosted chat

    net ○ wip

    IRCv3 stack for the friend group — Ergo + The Lounge behind Caddy, all on this domain.

  • fan music video

    video ○ wip

    56-shot VHS / found-footage production for MCR's "Vampires Will Never Hurt You," shot around Pittsburgh.

  • cyberdeck

    hw ○ parked

    Pi 4B in a crossbody sling, Quest 3 as a display over noVNC. Aluminum chassis, hand tools only, deliberately chaotic.

Running

Gear

  • daily driver7900X3D · RX 9070 · 32GB RAM
  • portableOMEN 16 · dual-boot NixOS / Windows
  • in the airFPV drones
  • audioSony WH-1000XM6
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