I build things —in code and in the shop.
Senior software engineer by trade, maker by obsession. I design, print, machine and photograph — and write it all down.
On the bench
Sango
An open source FreeCAD plugin for generative design. Give it a blank, the mounts and the loads. It finds where the part needs material and drops the rest, leaving shapes that look like bone.
CNC
A 3D-printed CNC machine built for precision — accurate enough to mill PCB boards, versatile enough for wood, sturdy enough for aluminum.
Latest writing
A hunch about compression that turned out to be right
Staring at a result and thinking "that does not look safe" turned out to be a better instinct than the maths sitting behind it.
Two things I was certain about, and both were wrong
Twice I had a confident diagnosis. Twice, actually measuring it took ten minutes and proved me wrong.
From a grey fog to something you could actually make
The results were mathematically correct for a long time before they were any use to anybody.
Test dev log entry
Test entry to verify video embed and gallery rendering.
Horizon Based Ambient Occlusion
A look at Horizon Based Ambient Occlusion (HBAO) and how it approximates occlusion using screen-space horizons.
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