I AM
THE
ERRANT
MIND

But most people call me MAX JACOBY

I’m a Infrastructure Engineer, Designer & Maker.

I SOLVE PROBLEMS

From IT systems infrastructure to Product Design, troubleshooting and tenacity runs in my veins. I relish the challenge that comes with diving head first into the unknown and emerging with a solution. I engineer items at my disposal to produce items of my desire.

Consider having a look at MIND’S EYE to see what I get up to:

PROJECT SPOTLIGHT

THE EM1

OVERDRIVE PROTECTION SYSTEM

“How do I stop my speakers from catchig fire?”

The EM1 is one of the most technically complex projects I have completed to date, and the culmination of my BSc at Loughborough University. My goal was to create a system which could monitor the physical properties of speaker drivers in real time, and use that data to intelligently predict and protect against it’s failure modes: distortion, thermal and electro-mechancial.  

The project was heavily electronics oriented. I taught myself to code Python, used MQTT for lightning fast and lightweight communication, and built a intuitive (physical) UI using C++ and serial links. All in all, great fun.

Latest Video

INSIDE A LEAK DETECTOR

It's really cool!

I salvaged this helium leak detector from the scrap heap at my university. It’s pretty old, but packed with some amazing tech – especially for the time. It must have cost a small fortune when new… and they were just throwing it away! Makes me sick.

Anyway, their loss is my gain. I got to learn how a mass spectrometer works, about 2 stage UHV design and how a turbomolecular pump creates a near perfect vacuum.

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