jonty.co.uk/made

• Limehouse Labs

2018 - : Small friendly hackspace in East London & EMF HQ (co-founder)

• Dorkbot London

2015 - : Art/tech meetup for people doing strange things with electricity (org team)

• Infrastructure Club

2014 - : A community of people who get excited about cranes and pipes (co-founder)

• Electromagnetic Field

2012 - : Camping festival for people with an inquisitive mind or an interest in making things (co-founder)

• UK Hackspace Foundation

2009 - : Community organisation dedicated to coordinating hackspaces around the UK (co-founder)

• Pub Standards

2006 - : Monthly conference after party without the conference (causes hangovers)

• The Deredactatron

A tiny tool to remove the redaction from badly redacted PDFs

• Open House London listings data

Open House has a truly atrocious website, so I automated data extraction and made it easier to bag venues

• Airline Route Data

A single JSON file that describes every passenger airport and their outbound airline routes, automatically updated weekly

• Gardman bird feeder mount

The birds make a complete mess of our lawn and I ordered the wrong thing

• ohnode.net - #freenode comic chat observatory (1)

The Freenode IRC network self-destructed, so I deployed a comic chat view of the support channel.

Warning: Vile language in this chat

• Glow smart meter display wall mount

All things should be wall mountable

• Mars Helicopter 2020 Mission

To my surprise, a tiny bit of code I wrote years ago was used on the Mars Helicopter Mission

• The Ultimate Cowbell Playlist

After discovering ultimatecowbell.com I converted it into a 204 hour Spotify playlist of cowbell music

• How NFTs reference art

I dug into how Non Fungible Tokens actually work and made a lot of people very angry

Covered by Futurism, The Atlantic, NewStatesman, BusinessInsider, MalwareBytes, The New York Times

• GPT-3 EMF Talks

I fed a decade of EMF talk titles into GPT-3 and had it imagine new ones

Later on I had it write the talks as well

• swf2svg recovery

While extracting vector artwork from zombo.com, I recovered the lost swf2svg

code and wrote a tool to extract source code from Doxygen documenttion

• Open House London API

Reverse engineered the Open House London listing API, because we must visit everything

• Cyber Guy Fawkes

While working for GDS I saw amazing Guy Fawkes cybersecurity posters in

Parliament so I filed a Freedom of Information act request to get hold of them

• The Hovercraft Pub

While taking my alcohol licensing exam I discovered a strange exception for hovercraft.

So we built a bar on one. A collaboration with Tom Scott and Matt Grey.

• USB-C PD Electric Blanket

An electric blanket powered by USB-C Power Delivery, for winter use in parks while social distancing

• Archiving the Aereon Corporation

Preserving the website of an obscure company that made experimental lifting body aircraft

• EMF 2020 T-shirts

A memento to remember the EMF that never happened.

Mesh is a simplified 3D drone scan of EMF 2018. A collaboration with Morag Hickman.

• CamJam

A near-live view through 900 TFL cameras spread across London

• Archiving the Millenium Dome Guide

Because it didn't exist anywhere online, or in the British Library

• The EMF Time Machine (1)

Letting people follow along with previous EMFs in real-time, after we cancelled the 2020 event

• Ubiquiti NanoStation tripod mount

A tripod screw mount for the NanoStation AC, because my house is cursed and the

only way I can get fast internet upstairs is using wireless link gear rated for 10km+

• Get This Party Started

A twitter bot posting every attempt to register a UK political party

• NHSX Mirror

Mirroring & preserving code published by NHSX in case of takedowns

• Beer Swing

A 3D printable drink holder for hammocks

• London Hackspace

2009 - 2015 : The first hackspace in London, which at one point had 1300 members (co-founder / director)