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• Printables - My designs for 3D printable objects

Weblog Posts

Static Site Generation with Pelican and Github Actions

A rundown on how I built this site, using Pelican (a Python-based static site generator) and Github Actions. Yes, this Geocities-looking crap is more modern than it seems.

Published: Tue 09 January 2024

Solving the Australian Signals Directorate Cryptography Challenge Coin

How myself and a mate worked through the Australian Signals Directorate cryptography channel, and neither of us having any background in cryptography but both of us having lots of background in searching crap online... we solved it.

Published: Thu 01 September 2022

DIY LiPo Battery for the Original Gameboy

Inspired by the replaceable USB-rechargeable LiPo batteries inside the Ring doorbells/cameras, I wanted something similar for my original gameboy. There's plenty of LiPo mods that require cutting up the Gameboy and/or soldering to the boards inside, but I wanted to leave the console all-original.

Published: Tue 20 July 2021

Digispark-based USB Volume Knob

This is a very basic beginner-friendly project that gives a physical volume knob that works on most desktop/laptops. Using a rotary encoder, a Digispark microcontroller, a few soldered wires, some pre-existing firmware from Adafruit, and a 3D printed housing, we get a super tidy and tiny dial for controlling the system volume (or map it to whatever you want).

Published: Thu 13 May 2021

Arcade Macro Board for OBS

A macro keyboard made of arcade buttons. Acts like a normal USB keyboard, but each arcade button runs multi-key macros/shortcuts such as CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-1, which you can then map in OBS to any OBS function.

Published: Fri 15 May 2020

CSIRAC at Scienceworks Melbourne

CSIRAC was the fourth computer ever built in the world, and was designed and built here in Australia.

Published: Mon 15 October 2018

The WWW Peaked in 1999

It's a pretty well known fact* that the World Wide Web (and arguably humanity itself) peaked in 1999, and it has been downhill ever since. Read on to find out why I'm right, why you're wrong, and why we should reset the entire WWW to 1999 and start over.

Published: Fri 31 December 1999

Why does this website look so broken? It doesn't, it's perfect!