Vanlife with Agents

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.

Macbook Air 2020 USB C port replacement

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

Two Wrecks, One Free Motorcycle

A field guide to having expensive fun with no money, worked through on the example of ending up with a road-legal 250 that cost nothing. Two auction wrecks, an engine crane doing a job it was never sold for, and a receipt that came out even.

The Sandbox That Draws Its Own Contours

A short-throw projector and a depth camera turn a box of sand into a live topographic map. Built for Te Papa during the Mahuki accelerator, out of timber from my weekend job at PlaceMakers.

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.

First Car

Moving onto bigger projects - the freedom of having four wheels.

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.

Building a shelf instead of cleaning the table

The table is always a mess, full of electronics. Tidying up is not fun, so a shelf was built instead.