But most people call me MAX JACOBY.
I’m a London based Systems Engineer, Designer, Developer and Maker.
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:
“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.
I sometimes make videos about whatever is piquing my interest at the time. Most recently I took apart a helium leak detector which I rescued from being thrown away by my university. Full of really interesting tech, including a turbomolecular pump and a helium mass spectrometer!
I post a lot of everyday tinkering on my Instagram account – have a look if you’re really bored.