VANLIFE · PART 4

What the Road Shipped

12 July 20268 mins read

Three months, a few thousand kilometres of East Coast, and the things that got built along the way. pingintro, Sidekick, TalkShot, an open-source video editor, and the lesson about doing five times more while enjoying it.

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7 posts since 2016

— 2026

Building a Home on Wheels

Two weeks turning an ex-accessibility van into a bedroom, office and kitchen. Solar, Starlink, a swivel seat, a butane oven, and the two boss fights nobody warns you about, namely American banking and van insurance on a visitor visa.

— 2022

Macbook Air 2020 USB C port replacement

Replacing the faulty USB-C port of a 2020 MacBook Air (Intel)

— 2017

Engraved Acrylic LED Light accessory

Scavenging spare components from the MagicMirror project to build something cool!

Integrating speakers into a Motorcycle Helmet

Bringing the music inside the helmet.

— 2016

Building the Hardware

After getting the software side of things up and running, it is time to build the hardware, the cost-efficient way.

Ambilight

Ambilight, short for "ambient lighting", is originally a lighting system for televisions developed by Philips, however today it is used in reference to all types and brands of ambient lighting in the context where lighting is utilized to complement the light coming from your main display.

Join the adventure

At five years old, an electronics starter kit introduced LEDs and stepper motors and the hook was set. About a decade later, a new obsession arrived: computers. This is where it all started.