Falling Star Systems

Engineering that reaches the real world

Hardware, data, and software—working together.

Falling Star Systems builds practical tools across embedded systems, machine vision, industrial controls, and self-hosted infrastructure.

EmbeddedConnected devices and sensing
AutomationControls and machine workflows
SoftwareFast, maintainable tools

Selected work

Projects are treated as complete systems: measurement, control, software, deployment, and the person who has to use it.

Machine vision

CNC gantry registration

A vision-assisted workflow for aligning large-format CNC operations with real material and real machine constraints.

VISION · CALIBRATION · CNC
Telemetry

ESP32 data pipeline

Sensor data moves through MQTT and Node-RED into InfluxDB, with Grafana turning it into useful operating history.

ESP32 · MQTT · INFLUXDB
Infrastructure

Private service stack

Containerized tools, remote access, monitoring, and resilient recovery on a compact Oracle Cloud server.

LINUX · DOCKER · TAILSCALE

Capabilities

Focused on systems that cross boundaries: physical and digital, prototype and production, local control and remote visibility.

Embedded systemsESP32, sensors, communications
Machine visionRegistration, calibration, inspection
Industrial controlsCNC workflows, instrumentation
Data systemsMQTT, time-series data, dashboards
Technical softwarePurpose-built desktop and web tools
InfrastructureLinux, containers, private networking

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