When I’m not pushing pixels or prompting LLMs, I’m usually in my office making things. I’ve been 3D printing and designing in Fusion 360 for years — started with Star Wars lightsaber replicas , moved on to Officer K’s blaster from Blade Runner 2049 , and eventually tackled my most complex build: a fully wired Chappie head with LEDs and airbrushed weathering.

More recently I’ve been getting deeper into electronics. I designed a custom trading keypad with hand-soldered LEDs and QMK firmware, and built Plotyx , an open-source COREXY pen plotter with a custom PCB I designed in KiCad. Somewhere in between I put together a Raspberry Pi Twitter bot that tweeted photos of Richmond Riverside every few hours, and experimented with generative art in p5.js

There’s a pattern here. I like things that fly. I spent years designing drone frames in CAD before finally building a few quads and learning to fly FPV. I also got deep enough into flight simulation to build a full cockpit setup and book an actual lesson in a Piper Warrior. Before all of that, I was skydiving and base jumping across Europe. These days I’ve traded the parachute for fatherhood, which is its own kind of adrenaline rush.