When I’m not designing or writing code, I’m usually in my office making things. I’ve been 3D printing and designing in Fusion 360 for years. Usually the object is just an excuse to learn the tool. The lightsabers were how I learned Fusion 360, the Raspberry Pi bot was how I got into the Twitter API, and Helias was how I got into p5.js. Each build tends to pick up whatever the next one needs. My first prop was a balsa-wood sword from Adventure Time , before I moved on to printed Star Wars lightsabers , Officer K’s blaster from Blade Runner 2049 , and a Chappie head with wired LEDs and airbrushed weathering.

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

I like things that fly. I designed an FPV drone frame and put it on Thingiverse years before I ever flew one. I never built my own design, but plenty of other people did. I also got deep into flight simulation , enough to end up with a yoke, pedals and switch panels on my desk, and a lesson in a real Piper Warrior as a birthday present. Before all that I was skydiving and BASE jumping around Europe. I do less of that now that I’m a father.