I AM
THE
ERRANT
MIND
But most people call me MAX JACOBY.
I’m a Infrastructure Engineer, Designer & Maker.
I SOLVE PROBLEMS
Troubleshooting and tenacity runs in my veins. From site reliability engineering to custom built 8,000W sound systems, blacksmithing to electrical engineering… I’m a fierce natural born problem solver and strive for perfection in all I do.
Have a look at MIND’S EYE to see my work, projects and hobbies:
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.
a Passion Project
Flint & Steel Sound System
8kW of bass, mid and treble
Flint & Steel is the sound system I hand built from scratch for raves, music events and fun.
Starting as a small subwoofer that I built to power my university basement parties, the system has grown to an enormous 7′ tall monster. Using the Paraflex design series, the current stack comprises of a double 18″ subwoofer, 15″ kick and 15″/1.5″ coaxially loaded kicktop.