An open-source iOS app that puts the assistant of your choosing on Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses. Everything private stays on the phone.

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6 posts since 2017

— 2024

NZ Car Auctions, Part 3: Predicting Prices With XGBoost

A small side project that evolved from a simple daily crawler into a price prediction tool for New Zealand insurance auctions.

NZ Car Auctions, Part 2: Analytics With Zero Servers

What 1,100 days of NZ salvage auctions reveal, and how FindCars NZ serves interactive charts and a free JSON API from a purely static site.

NZ Car Auctions, Part 1: Building a 660,000-Record Dataset

How a small daily crawler pointed at New Zealand's insurance auctions grew into a three-year, 660,000-record public dataset.

— 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

How the Garage Happened

How a Masters student on a tight scholarship accidentally fell into car flipping, learned to wrench, and funded a lot of skiing and surfing.