Bright Board Shop

Practical tools built in my home lab.

Bright Board Shop is where I build and test digital tools for community events, menus, civic workflows, household planning, and other real-world problems. Explore working demos, see projects being used in the community, and let me know if something here could be useful.

Projects and working demos

Five project areas currently exploring practical ways to organize information and make it easier to use.

Demo boards

Digital Menu Boards

Menu demonstrations for a market and deli, ice cream shop, bar and grill, and TV or kiosk-friendly responsive layouts.

  • Centralized menu-content patterns
  • Screen and mobile display layouts
Home-lab project

CRT — Civic Request Tracker

A civic-workflow project exploring public request intake, review, department routing, staff assignments, work orders, materials, costs, reports, and public status/map workflows.

In active use in Logan County, Illinois

Logan County Community Events

A live community calendar with event guides, festival schedules, flyers, maps, vendors, public submissions, and scoped editor workflows.

Working app

What’s for Dinner

A household cooking workflow with pantry tracking, recipe matching, meal planning, shopping lists, cooking support, and theme options.

Experimental demo

The Drink Shoppe

A visual drink-browsing experiment with categories, flavors and syrups, seasonal specials, screen-friendly layouts, and structured combinations.

Behind the Curtain

Interested in how these projects work? Behind the Curtain covers the architecture, data model, permissions, deployment approach, and notable implementation challenges.

Working in the open

Project pages include concise technical notes based on the code that powers each build.

Practical constraints

These builds favor clear workflows, maintainable data, and useful demos over unsupported claims about commercial readiness.

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Have a similar problem, questions about how something works, or want to talk through a project?

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