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Built to learn — expanding familiar skills or throwing myself into something completely new and challenging.

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VTOL Drone

Flight

VTOL Drone

Fixed-wing cruise with vertical takeoff — ArduPilot on a T1 Ranger.

  • Plane Frame — T1 Ranger Kit
  • Flight Controller — MatekSys F765-WSE
  • GPS/Compass — MatekSys M8Q-5883 (I2C compass, UART GPS)
  • RC — Horus X10 Express with Yaapu Lua Script
  • FPort telemetry from a FrSky R-XSR Receiver
  • 5S battery
  • T-Motor F1570 (2700 KV) with F35A ESCs (×3)
  • Emax ES9052MD digital servo (×3)
  • 3D printed VTOL conversion attachments for motors

Ground

Autonomous Car

1:10 scale rover with companion computer, rangefinders, and full autopilot stack.

  • 1:10 scale chassis (Outback Fury 2.0)
  • 7.2V 2000mAh NiMH battery
  • Here2 GPS/Compass
  • Raspberry Pi 4 as companion computer
  • Autopilot — MatekSys H743-SLIM V3
  • LEDs — strip of 72 WS2812B
  • RC — RX8R Pro
  • Telemetry — SiK Telemetry Radio V3
  • Rangefinders — LightWare SF11/C (max 120m), HC-SR04 sonar (max 2m)
Home Automation

Home

Home Automation

Home Assistant brain, ESP32 nodes, MQTT, and a live floorplan dashboard.

  • Home Assistant running on a Raspberry Pi 4
  • Lights, motion, temp/humidity, camera, plugs
  • Floorplan UI
  • MQTT
  • ESP32 devices
  • Local DNS
  • Custom dashboard
Quadcopter Drones

Flight

Quadcopter Drones

Multirotor builds for learning flight dynamics, tuning, and aerial systems.

Fixed Wing Planes

Flight

Fixed Wing Planes

Conventional and experimental airframes — wings, lifts, and long endurance.

FPV Drone

Flight

FPV Drone

First-person flight — immersion, video links, and stick time.

Flight

Helicopters

Collective pitch, swashplates, and the joy of rotary-wing control.

Notes and build logs coming soon.

Water Rocket

Flight

Water Rocket

Launch-day physics — countdown, smoke trail, and a homemade controller.

Radio

LoRa / Mesh Radio

Long-range, low-power links for telemetry and off-grid messaging.

Notes and build logs coming soon.

Robot Wars

Ground

Robot Wars

Combat robotics — armour, weapons, and surviving the arena.

Ground

Micro-Mouse

Maze-solving micromouse — sensors, mapping, and fast pathing.

Notes and build logs coming soon.

Final Year Project

Other

Final Year Project

University capstone — computer vision and keypad calibration on Raspberry Pi.

Space Lego

Maker

Space Lego

Orbital hardware, brick by brick.

  • Space Shuttle Discovery with Hubble Telescope
  • International Space Station
  • Saturn V with Lunar Lander
  • The Hail Mary
  • Tales of Space
  • Space Launch System
Gardening

Maker

Gardening

Soil-side systems — growing food as carefully as building robots.

  • Veg Trug
  • Carrots, broccoli, spinach, garlic chives, raspberries
Astronomy

Other

Astronomy

Looking up — optics, tracking, and nights under clear sky.

Drone Photography

Flight

Drone Photography

Airborne framing — landscapes and structures from a new angle.

Trains

Maker

Trains

Rail systems, models, and mechanical rhythm.

PC Games

Other

PC Games

Builds, sims, and the digital side of making.

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