Ongoing
2022 - : Community run venue, where we make interesting things happen (Trustee)
2022 - : Event creation collective (Operative)
2018 - : Small friendly hackspace in East London & EMF HQ (Co-founder)
2015 - : Art/tech meetup for people doing strange things with electricity (Organising team)
2014 - : A community of people who get excited about cranes and pipes (Co-founder)
2012 - : Camping festival for people with an inquisitive mind or an interest in making things (Co-founder)
2009 - : Community organisation dedicated to coordinating hackspaces around the UK (Co-founder)
2006 - : Monthly conference after party without the conference (Causes hangovers)
2025
Lots of things. One day the things will be listed here.
2024
Every public webcam in the path of the 2024 total eclipse, with a live umbra.
Wildly incomplete list. So many things.
2023
Completely forgot about this list for a year. I'll add the things at some point.
2022
Machine-readable Glastonbury Festival lineups from 2015-2022, and enormous spotify playlists
An hourly updated public archive of all UK Notices To Airmen (NOTAM), because it didn't exist
I deployed free earplug dispensers at EMF to see if it would encourage use of hearing protection at gigs. It did
The tenth anniversary of the festival I co-founded in 2012. This ate most of the year
2021
A tiny tool to remove the redaction from badly redacted PDFs
Open House has a truly atrocious website, so I automated data extraction and made it easier to bag venues
A single JSON file that describes every passenger airport and their outbound airline routes, automatically updated weekly
The birds make a complete mess of our lawn and I ordered the wrong thing
.museum is an extremely old and forgotten TLD, and I wanted to see what was left
The Freenode IRC network self-destructed, so I deployed a comic chat view of the support channel
Warning: Vile language in this chat
All things should be wall mountable
To my surprise, a tiny bit of code I wrote years ago was used on the Mars Helicopter Mission
After discovering ultimatecowbell.com I converted it into a 204 hour Spotify playlist of cowbell music
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, and was translated into Korean by an arts charity
Later on I had it write the talks as well
2020
While extracting vector artwork from zombo.com, I recovered the lost swf2svg
code and wrote a tool to extract source code from Doxygen documenttion
Reverse engineered the Open House London listing API, because we must visit everything
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
While taking my alcohol licensing exam I discovered a strange exception for hovercraft.
An electric blanket powered by USB-C Power Delivery, for winter use in parks while social distancing
Preserving the website of an obscure company that made experimental lifting body aircraft
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
Because it didn't exist anywhere online, or in the British Library
Letting people follow along with previous EMFs in real-time, after we cancelled the 2020 event
• Electromagnetic Field 2020
We organised and then had to cancel Electromagnetic Field 2020 due to COVID
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+
A twitter bot posting every attempt to register a UK political party
Mirroring & preserving code published by NHSX in case of takedowns
A 3D printable drink holder for hammocks
2019
Still working on this. Things definitely happened between 2010-2019.
2009
2009 - 2015 : The first hackspace in London, which at one point had 1300 members (co-founder / director)
0 - 2008
Fairly sure I did things before 2008. I'll get there.