Things I build when nobody’s paying me. Odd projects, mostly. Things that are unexpected, and things that as far as I can tell nobody has built before.
Some of it is public and linked. The rest is described rather than linked, because the repository is private or because there isn’t one.
Modular synths
- Eurorack perfboard is prototyping board cut to Eurorack panel widths, for sale on Etsy.
- u8g2_vcv runs firmware written for a real OLED screen inside VCV Rack instead, with almost no code changes.
Cameras
- Photonic Encabulator fires a camera, two strobes, two lights and a bubble machine in the right order from one foot pedal, so I could photograph soap bubble trails. Four versions, three of them destroyed.
Tools
- BLEOTA_CLI flashes an ESP32 over Bluetooth from inside the PlatformIO build, so the board never needs unplugging.
- SCPI MCP server hands an agentic harness the run of my bench as 76 tools, oscilloscope screenshots included. Public.
- Text-a-printer prints your SMS on a receipt printer sitting on my desk.
Objects
- Marble Soda is a lamp made of an acrylic tube, addressable LEDs, and an almost problematic amount of marbles.
- Ahoy-hoy is a Model 500 rotary phone wired into HomeKit, built for a roommate who did not want to use his phone to turn on a lamp.
- FEAR spigot covers an open electrical box in my studio wall. It is a joke, and it is load bearing.