# Dalton Baker

> Software engineer in Rapid City, South Dakota. Works at Omnitech, co-founded Reg X Timing (race registration and timing) and co-owns Best Choice Pawn. This is Dalton Baker's portfolio, daltonsbaker.com.

The site is an interactive "system map": each planet, moon and asteroid is a page, and the blog posts are moons of a gas giant called The Log. It also hides a game: about once a minute a comet swings past the black hole at the center, and clicking it opens [Slingshot](https://daltonsbaker.com/slingshot), a gravity sandbox game (https://daltonsbaker.com/?comet sends one straight away).

Every page also has a plain Markdown copy at the same address plus `.md`, which the links below point to. Everything in one file: [llms-full.txt](https://daltonsbaker.com/llms-full.txt).

- [About Dalton Baker](https://daltonsbaker.com/about.md): background, education, resume facts and contact

## Work and businesses

- [Omnitech](https://daltonsbaker.com/omnitech.md): I joined Omnitech's Rapid City office in 2024. As a software engineer, I work directly with clients across a variety of industries, building solutions to their unique problems.
- [Reg X Timing](https://daltonsbaker.com/reg-x-timing.md): I co-founded Reg X Timing in 2024 with my mentor and first boss in software engineering. We spent our first year building our race registration and timing platform.
- [Best Choice Pawn](https://daltonsbaker.com/best-choice-pawn.md): I bought Best Choice Pawn with my best friend in November 2025. We actually worked together at another pawn shop nearly a decade earlier.

## Posts

- [Building a 3D-Printed Telescope](https://daltonsbaker.com/telescope.md): A fully custom 8-inch Dobsonian reflector telescope I designed from scratch and 3D printed. Built for deep-sky observing on a budget. (May 28, 2026)
- [Push-To Telescope System](https://daltonsbaker.com/push-to.md): A custom push-to navigation system designed for the Apertura AD8 Dobsonian. Uses encoders to help point the telescope at any object in the sky. (June 1, 2026)
- [The Dakota Coin LED Metals Sign](https://daltonsbaker.com/led-sign.md): A live gold and silver price display that started as a Raspberry Pi shop project and grew into one of my longest-running production systems. (June 1, 2026)

## Websites I built

- [Metals Market Display](https://daltonsbaker.com/metals-market-display.md): Displays live gold and silver prices with automatic updates. Designed for display in coin and pawn shops.
- [Heartland Tanks](https://daltonsbaker.com/heartland-tanks.md): Custom website for a South Dakota-based tire tank manufacturer. Built for simplicity, performance, and easy maintenance.
- [Lottery Pool Tracker](https://daltonsbaker.com/lottery-pool-tracker.md): Tracks contributions, winnings, and payouts for lottery pools shared across clubs.
- [Dalton's Department of Truth](https://daltonsbaker.com/department-of-truth.md): A tongue-in-cheek conspiracy blog exploring absurd ideas.
- [OmniScreenz](https://daltonsbaker.com/omniscreenz.md): I built this website for a coworker at Omnitech. He makes screensavers and video games, and I wanted him to have a place to show them off.

## Tools and packages

- [Web Tools](https://daltonsbaker.com/web-tools.md): A browser-based, locally-running collection of web dev tools, including image utilities for icons, WebP conversions, and more.
- [Cosmos DB Query Converter](https://daltonsbaker.com/cosmos-db-query-converter.md): A lightweight NuGet package for writing native Cosmos DB SQL queries with automatic parameterization.
- [Dependency Registration Attributes](https://daltonsbaker.com/dependency-registration-attributes.md): A lightweight NuGet package that simplifies dependency injection by letting you register services using C# attributes.

## Games

- [State Your Name](https://daltonsbaker.com/state-your-name.md): A space exploration idle game, currently in development. Explore the cosmos at your own pace.
- [State Your Name Screensaver](https://daltonsbaker.com/state-your-name-screensaver.md): A screensaver I made based on State Your Name. It's on OmniScreenz with the rest.
- [Slingshot](https://daltonsbaker.com/slingshot): Slingshot, an orbit game hidden in a comet: fling planets around a black hole and hold them in orbit. Interactive only, with no Markdown copy.

## Optional

- [Resume (PDF)](https://daltonsbaker.com/DaltonBakerResume.pdf)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/dalton-baker)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dalton-baker)
- [Privacy policy](https://daltonsbaker.com/privacyPolicy)