Independent projects & experiments

SMALL TOOLS.
SERIOUS HEAT.

Useful tools. Curious experiments.
Built to be used. Shared to be useful.

From the desktop to the everyday.Scroll to explore

OUT OF THE WORKSHOP.

04 projects
Paper In macOS
Paper In showing front and back scan previews with generated sample pages
macOSBeta

Paper In

Put the paper in. Get a searchable PDF out. A small Mac app that makes scanning feel simple again.

InstaPi’s original camera and Raspberry Pi logo
Raspberry PiOpen source

InstaPi

Your photos, off your phone. Turn a Raspberry Pi into a photo frame the whole family can add to.

The finished 3D-printed Polaroid model, with its cream face, red shutter button, and rainbow stripe
OpenSCAD · 3D printing3D model

Polaroid, parametric.

A fully parametric Polaroid Land Camera 1000 / OneStep model, rebuilt in OpenSCAD with Claude using a $2 Blender model as a reference.

In development

Weekaboo

A little more room in your week. A calendar and task app for seeing what’s on and deciding what’s next.

Mobile + desktopComing together.View source
Weekaboo’s actual app showing its weekly calendar and task list with sample dataWeekaboo’s peeking calendar mascot

SIDE PROJECTS.

04 experiments
THE IDEA

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