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Jack Foltz.

Software Engineer

Creative

Animated line art style UI with rotating torus. Line art style UI with rotating torus.

Neurotic

Live coding environment for audio reactive visuals built with p5.js.

Video of doom style game scene in PHANTOMa. Doom style game scene in PHANTOMa.

PHANTOMa

High performance Rust/WebGPU rendering and realtime audio signal processing engine built for live DJ performances.

Camera panning around VR nightclub with audio reactive bigscreen. VR nightclub with audio reactive bigscreen.

Nyxt's Abyss

Projection mapped and audio reactive VR nightclub built with PHANTOMa.

Rotating black and yellow spiral tunnel shader with tweaking of parameters. Black and yellow spiral tunnel shader.

Shader Playground

Interactive GLSL shader editor with hot reloading and automatic GUI generation.

Two laptops running Quake in an ultraviolet themed night club.

Nightclub Quake

Play Quake 3 CPMA with your friends over the local network.

Hardware

Picture of several server computers glowing blue in the dark.

Bare Metal

Setup guide for automatically provisioned federated bare metal Kubernetes meta-clusters. Powers my personal infrastructure, including this site.

Video of microcontroller receiving E.131 packets and flashing lights. Picture of microcontroller receiving E.131 packets.

E131.rs

Rust library for sending and receiving E.131 (sACN) lighting control packets.

Video of launchpad being used to control strobing colorful lights with people dancing. Picture of launchpad being used to control lights in a DJ booth.

StageBridge

Rust library for orchestrating software-defined live DJ performances with support for MIDI devices, DMX lights, lasers, networking, and more.

Video of song playing in VirtualDJ software with beats being registered in plugin. Picture of song playing in VirtualDJ software.

VDJOSC

VirtualDJ plugin for synchronizing audio playback between multiple devices over the network.

Video of snake being played on a Launchpad X. Game of snake being played on a Launchpad X.

Launchpad.rs

Rust library for interacting with Novation Launchpad MIDI controllers.

Software

Screenshot of SignStream UI showing annotations and sign language videos.

SignStream

Rutgers: Research application for linguistic annotation and analysis of American Sign Language. Implemented a GStreamer-based embedded media player, and a suite of speech analysis algorithms.

Screenshot of desktop showing covert art art and music visualizer.

CoverDisp

Desktop utility for fetching and displaying the album artwork of the currently playing song.

Animation of path finding for 2D robot in a polygonal environment. 2D robot in a polygonal environment.

PolyPlanner

Path planning simulations for a car-like robot in an environment with polygonal obstacles.

Screenshot of kernel initial boot screen with hello world.

Argon OS

Experimental bootloader and kernel written entirely from scratch to learn about operating systems.

Screenshot of VyOS router system boot up output.

Terraform for VyOS

Maintainer of the Terraform (infrastructure as code) provider for the open source VyOS router distribution.