Storage and transport of painted miniatures is one of the most annoying aspects of being involved in tabletop gaming. After several unsuccessful storage iterations using instrument foam, I came up with the idea of putting magnets in their bases and attaching them to some sort of a steel mounting bracket. A steel surface alone,…
There’s no arguing 2020 has been a unusual year. We are living through what may be one of the most pivotal events in the last few generations. While it’s anyone’s guess what the long term impact of this virus will be, many of us will likely be transitioning to work remotely for the foreseeable…
It’s become apparent that a I need a configurable multipurpose embedded control system. This is something I have been theorizing the designs for since I was in university (See Butterfly Board). Now with me putting a more intense focus on developing out the NullTek open-ecosystem, I would like to design and build a controlling…
As an electronic engineer with a strong base in software development, I’ve had peripheral exposure to networking, but I had never delved deeply into routing. Among growing fears surrounding Huawei hardware, I felt like it was a bit of a blemish on whatever engineering credentials I do have to be running gateway hardware which…
Plex server has been a staple of my home cloud since my media server was comprised of a laptop with the screen snapped off (literal headless server). However with the increasing ambiguity of their terms of service and privacy agreements I had been feeling more and more uneasy running this software inside my LAN.…
There are multiple situations where automated switching of low-voltage power supplies to equipment is required. Such as cycling power to UUTs in production test, or programatically enabling power to home automation systems to name a few.
With the intense focus the world currently has on data, there has been a push towards collating this useful information to improve the runtime efficiency of historically slow processes. The flow on effect of this trend is companies pushing towards optimisation and efficiency in all facets of algorithmic programming.
Throughout highschool I was always fascinated by CNC technology, laser-cutters, routers, rapid-prototypers… It was inevitable that when I entered university in 2011, right at the beginning of the 3D printing boom, I would fall in love with that technology too.
I recently redesigned my in-home server setup, and during that ordeal I stumbled upon an a cool little design I was working on in 2016.
From my last few years designing automated fixtures for electronics manufacturing I have noticed a strange trend…