Writing
Essays and build logs from the work. Long pieces think something through; build-log entries are the terse, high-resolution record of what actually happened that week, the granular truth of building hard systems in public.
2026 · 07 · 19
Two phone stands, both ugly, both work
Finished the Onshape design and printing exercises. Designing was the easy part. Getting the parts from CAD onto the print bed in one piece was the actual fight.
2026 · 07 · 16
CAD fundamentals done, now the smoke
Onshape fundamentals are in the bag and the bench is live. Now frying components on purpose, and a few by accident, through Make: Electronics.
2026 · 07 · 05
Why the big rover comes after the Pupper
Sequencing a 40 kg machine behind the systems-engineering week: build small and stupid, then big and smart.
2026 · 06 · 14
Two wheels, clean odometry: Rover v1
Why the first rover is a differential drive, and how its ros2_control interface ports straight onto v2.