Hermes Glasses: Your Own AI on Ray-Bans

— 2026

Building a Home on Wheels

Two weeks turning an ex-accessibility van into a bedroom, office and kitchen, plus the two boss fights nobody warns you about.

— 2022

Being Resourceful Is the Best Money Saving Strategy

A dead MacBook port and a smashed phone screen, both fixed in under an hour. The repairs are not the interesting part; what the savings turn into is.

— 2020

Two Wrecks, One Free Motorcycle

How to have expensive fun with no money. Two auction wrecks, an engine crane doing a job it was never sold for, and a road-legal 250 that cost nothing.

— 2018

The Sandbox That Draws Its Own Contours

A projector and a depth camera turn a box of sand into a live topographic map. Built for Te Papa out of timber from my weekend job.

— 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.

Final Touches

The Mirror is finally ready. A satisfying end to one of the most interesting projects to date.

— 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.

Creating Custom Modules

Time to turn specific requirements into reality by writing custom modules.

Idea and Inspiration

Six months of bed rest after ACL surgery, a Pinterest habit, and a Magic Mirror: the first thing I built that felt like real-world augmented reality.

Ambilight

LEDs behind the monitor that follow whatever is on it. Philips ships this with their televisions, so I built one out of an Arduino and a strip of tape.

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.