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MITCH MELE

Sounds, vibrations, strobe lights, lever pulls, and space explorations. Side projects are supposed to be fun.

2026 Projects

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4 featured projects

EB-01
Elevated BPM
1. KICK
2. CLAP
3. CH
4. OH
01A hardware-styled groovebox for making techno — playable from the first click, with a goal-checked curriculum woven into the live instrument.
144 commitsLast active 29 Oct 2026TypeScriptCSSHTML
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T1 / OPTIONS DESKMARKET DELAYED
87.4
RANKED SIGNAL / DEFINED RISK
1. CALL
2. 30Δ
3. 45D
02Terminal OneA single-user desktop trading cockpit — NYSE-floor terminal crossed with a late-night slot machine — that monitors positions and runs a deterministic options-trade recommendation engine.
3 commitsLast active 25 Jul 2026JavaTypeScriptCSS
Open case study
03TelescopeA shipped web planetarium that renders roughly 9,000 real stars for a visitor’s location and time — with a beautiful 3D sky and an accessible path into the same astronomy.
59 commitsLast active 9 Oct 2026TypeScriptMDXJavaScript
Open case study
04Sound CityA dark house and techno finder built on source-verified Chicago event data — from discovery and ingestion through a maintainer review queue before anything becomes public.
33 commitsLast active 11 Aug 2026TypeScriptCSSHTML
Open case study

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BIRDSVIEW

Explore a 3D globe, bird's-eye views, and surprising geography facts.

Latest Dispatch

Shipping a groovebox that teaches techno

What it took to turn elevated-bpm's concept doc into a playable groovebox — and what the sequencer taught me about scheduling audio on the web.

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PIRATE WORLD

Exploring a 3D pirate adventure for players of all ages.

More projects

4 of many · curated, not crawled

Screens — repository on GitHub
A concert image gallery — a React and TypeScript front end over a Spring Boot backend.
28 commitsLast active 31 Jul 2026TypeScriptCSSDockerfile
- TypeScript
- React
- Spring Boot
Feedback Listener — repository on GitHub
Consumes feedback messages off Azure Service Bus and persists them to Cosmos DB, with secrets held in Key Vault.
6 commitsLast active 12 Feb 2025Java
- Java
- Spring Boot
- Azure Service Bus
Interstellar Exchange — repository on GitHub
An electronic equities exchange: it reads a live ActiveMQ quote feed and executes eligible bid/ask pairs at the midpoint of the spread.
17 commitsLast active 9 Feb 2022JavaHTML
- Java
- Spring Boot
- ActiveMQ
Buzzball — repository on GitHub
Advanced MLB metrics — a React and TypeScript front end over them.
2 commitsLast active 10 Apr 2026JavaScriptHTMLTypeScript
- TypeScript
- React
- Vite

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