Project Pages

Quad-monitor floor stand
Quad-monitor floor stand
Desks are wasteful things – they collect junk and waste precious space with their fixed shape and hard-to-move bulkiness. Why not just hang some monitors on a stand, and get a nice comfortable chair? I’ll worry about the keyboard rest another day. I do a lot of CAD work as an electronics designer and was […]
DaveNAS / OpenMediaVault
DaveNAS / OpenMediaVault
I needed to replace my aging NAS with something a little more modern and hackable. My old system was born out of need – I built something from parts I had lying around – an old laptop running NAS4FREE and a few external drives for data. I spent nothing but a little time. It was […]
Storage/Computer Rack
Storage/Computer Rack
When working from a small space, it’s always a challenge to make the best use of every inch of it. During lockdown in the middle of 2020, I decided to gut my whole workshop and store everything in my second shop. I took lots of measurements and started to sketch out ideas to best make […]
Retro Arcade Machine
Retro Arcade Machine
I enjoy creating various small and large projects, but I often forget to document most of them. This page mainly consists of photos of my current arcade machine build and notes about the components and suppliers. I hope this information will be helpful to someone. The Concept The aim of the project was to create […]
Wordwatch
Wordwatch
Introduction Word clocks are fun. There are many variations on the basic principle of showing the time with language. Still, most versions are constructed on an array, with word fragments illuminated and read off left-to-right, top-to-bottom, just like you’re reading this now. I’ve encountered numerous variations of the basic scheme, making it difficult to list […]
The Snappit Prototyping System
The Snappit Prototyping System
Introduction Early in my electronics prototyping career, I decided creating a reconfigurable hardware prototyping system would be useful and fun. There are lots of these things around, but none quite worked the way I wanted them to. The premise is simple: make some plastic mounting sheets with a grid of holes and create electronics modules […]

As time and resources permit, I hope to expand upon the projects list above, but for now, please keep an eye on the blog below for any updates!

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