Category: Projects

In 2019 I had the unique opportunity to throw my own pots, and fire them in a Raku kiln. Raku firing is a traditional Japanese pottery firing technique, typically involving removing the pottery from the kiln while it’s red-hot and placing it into a container filled with combustible materials, which ignite upon contact with the…

This was a weird one… but actually pretty cool in hindsight. To go with the thrown pottery for my A level art, this animation depicted a pot man coming to life in a museum – only to return to his ancient amphora brethren. I used a xBox Kinect V1 to motion capture my body movements…

In 2019 I strapped an RC plane motor to my bike and powered it with a Makita drill battery. It worked out pretty well.

I happened across an old broken air conditioning unit, took it apart and thought “huh… I could use this to cool my computer!” I’d always wanted to water cool my PC, but it’s an expensive business and I was broke. So I had the idea to buy the bare minimum and use the evaporator from…

When I was 16 I built a makeshift blacksmith forge in my parents back garden. By some miracle I’m still alive. Here are the photos!