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 […]
Tom Dick & Harry Website
Project Goal: Replatform an e-commerce shop from the current cloud hosting solution to an on-prem WordPress deployment. I would be taking control of every aspect – essentially assuming the role of a full stack developer. Taking months of planning, testing, migrating, designing and tweaking, this was one of the most complex and lengthy projects I […]
Flint & Steel V3.0 Build Photos
All the photos I took while I was building a Paraflex 15 C2-D kick and a 2×18″ type O.
Flint & Steel Sound System
Flint & Steel Sound System has been one of my passion projects since 2022. Starting out as a single Cubo 15 subwoofer, I focused my energy on building a full stack during 2023. I’m now on V3.0 – the culmination of all my knowledge thus far. A double 18″ type O sub, 15″ C2-D kick and […]
Homelab ’23
A whistle stop tour of my new server and homelab environment. I’ve migrated from XCP-NG to Proxmox and explain a little bit about my rationale. Apologies it’s in crap video form.
Weird Network Problems in XCP-NG
I have no idea what is going on. I’m getting consistently inconsistent throughput and latency issues. This is a post to collect my findings so far… Not very interesting to anyone else but me. Ping via PIFs: No problems there. Pings between VMs, using VIFs: Not terrible, but not amazing. Throughput tested with iperf3: Throughput […]