Misc. Personal Projects

I didn't like the ugly plastic number plate adapter with exposed borders, so I made a custom one with a bit of waterjet cutting, milling, and riveting.

Number plate adapter

New vs old number plate adapter

I decided there wasn't much to go wrong with getting a cheap sub-$200 CNC router from Ebay, and indeed it was a lot of fun to set up and play around with (albeit quite useless at anything practical)

3018 CNC in homemade enclosure (left) and one of the PCBs I milled with it (right)

solder mask appliction attempt to a milled PCB (left) and fully assembled boards for a custom quadcopter project (right)

I took some well-defined J Pole antenna geometry and made a custom design with aluminium tubes and plates. The antenna is able to reliably pick up my local airport's ATIS and some comms, and on clear days is able to pick up broadcasts from my local repeater 50km away

J pole antenna (left) and mounted above roof on timber stick (right)

I lost a keycap on my keyboard, and as trashy as 'forged' carbon is as an engineering material (fight me), it does look pretty cool

Forged carbon keycap (left) and its compression mold (right)

A bouncy ball thingy

A dot clicking game

We had to make a little maze-navigating robot for a first-year introductory engineering course. I decided to vacuum-form a cute little shell to go along with it

Rover with shell (left) and the shell on its mold (right)

A brief selection of a useful, a pretty, and a completely useless gift I've made

Machined DND dice case open (left) and closed (right)

D20 dice in homemade gift box (left) and dice before demoulding (right)

Concrete duck with gift box (left) and half duck mold CAD (right)