Metallic Fingernails
This has been gaining loads of interest on social media recently – so I decided to make my own! These are made from aluminium sheet, hammered and planished into the right shape. For future versions I’d like to mould them from wax and cast them from sterling silver for a more precise fit and more […]
C.A.L.C.I.F.E.R
Cortical Archival Library for Contextualization, Inference, Filing, and Efficient Recall Yeah, that acronym is a bit of a stretch… but you get the idea. Calcifer, or Cal for short, is my ever growing AI powered assistant written in python. It’s main function is to archive and organise all my thoughts, so they are browsable, indexable and […]
PSA: Running a Tor Middle Relay Can Cause Blacklisting
This is just a quick note to reassure anyone else who thought they were losing their mind because they thought there was something wrong with their firewall or DNS. In the end, it actually wasn’t DNS for once. This is not a particularly ground breaking or surprising observation, but good to have solid evidence that […]
HOMELAB ’24
My collection of servers is still going strong and has evolved massively since my last post about my homelab in 2021. It’s now less of a homelab and more of a production ready, hyper-converged, high availability powerhouse. watch this space, I’m gunna make a video, just haven’t got around to it yet
EM1 Prototyping Vlog
A playlist of every update, frustration and breakthrough I had during the prototyping process of my main university project: The EM1. I recommend checking out my other post about the EM1 to find out more about it. View the Full playlist Or watch it here…
The EM1
The EM1 is the culmination of my degree in Product Design & Technology at Loughborough University. A technically functional and carefully considered device to prevent speakers at music events from being driven too hard, burning out and needing replacement. The EM1 is a two part system – a base station and up to 18 remote […]
Bloom!
As part of the Live Projects module at Loughborough University Design School, a handful of companies and consultancies each presented us with a design brief. As students, we were able to choose one brief and design a solution to address it. I chose Panasonic’s brief, what was “living better together: design a product for shared […]
Automated Aeropress Coffee Machine
This was the main project of the Mechanics & Electronics module at Loughborugh University in my final year. Despite being a piss poor module which came under fire from our entire cohort, the outcome was rather fun. The brief was to design a device that would automagically plunge an Aeropress coffee maker (with as much […]
CNC Isogrids
In October 2022 I got a small CNC router. To test it out and push it’s limits I decided to try out Winston Moy’s isogrid coasters. I designed the coasters in Solidworks – very similar to Winston’s but adapted to the stock I had. I then used Solidwork’s built in CAM tools to generate tool […]
Troubleshooting Very Average Wireguard Performance on IONOS
I’ve been obsessing over this on and off for about a month, and I just can’t seem to figure it out. The situation is as follows: public internet ———-> VPS <====WG Tunnel====> pfSense ———-> LAN/Server I have a Wireguard tunnel set up to route all traffic between my pfSense LAN and a VPS. This means […]