I don’t know if anyone reads this blog of mine except googlebots and the like, but anyone who might would know I don’t post much. Anyone who knows me personally may or may not know why. I’m a very quiet person, I rarely say anything and pretty much never call anyone. This is not because I don’t like them and certainly not because I don’t care about them. Even my poor family rarely hear from me and whether or not they know it I do care a great deal about them. The reason is I never feel like I have anything good or interesting to say. For some reason I feel I need to have something REALLY important in order to tell anyone about it. Just how I am. Even making this post is a huge step out for me, I’m doing it because I’m starting to feel like I need to get myself out there more. I’m 42 and still working low-end jobs because I’m no good at talking myself up or “Selling” myself for exactly the same reasons.

The other reason people don’t see me much is that most of my spare time is consumed in many little projects and that too is something I need to focus on, not the projects themselves but the number of them and their priorities. I basically have so many in my head right now that it causing issues in itself. Part of writing this post is to start getting myself to communicate better and more often, to get my project listed and managed into priorities, to track them and their progress better as well as show and record all the things I can do. Purely for myself and my own reasons but if anyone else gets something out of it then even better.

So I’m going to attempt to make some lists of Projects I’m working on and also have completed over the recent time. I want to document their progress, make available where possible any hardware or software references as well. I’d like to see if there are any WordPress plugins that may provide some sort of Project Tracker or the like as well. Have to see what’s out there.

Off the top of my head right now, and this list will need fleshing out:

• Current priority one: The work shed – aka Man Cave or Geek Shed. (Will explain in another post) (in Progress)
• Version 3 of the Automated Tracking Telescope. (will also need its own post)
• Private coding project involving embedded android – specifically U-Boot coding. (in Progress)
• Hardware camera and image processor for the telescope using an FPGA.
• Rebuild my home web-server that hosts this and other Blogs.
• Design and build a Pick-n-Place machine – possibly based on the OpenPnP Project. (in Progress)
• Design and build Version 2 of my own 3D-Printer.
• “The Game” MMORPG game I was working on previously (on Hold)
• Sort, clean and recode my large collection of videos/photos/music/e-books.
• Build a pergola onto this house – then build it into a “Qld room”.
• More TBA…

Some projects I’ve completed – some need to be documented:

• The Chook Cage & Coup.
• A portable chook pen.
• Version 1 of my 3D Printer. (and lots of prints…)
• Versions 1 & 2 of a tracking telescope.
• Rebuilt the controlling hardware and software inside a “cheap” 40W CO2 Laser cutter. (still have more ideas in plan but it is working enough that I could leave it as is).
• Back end work for various WordPress Blogs and Forums for my partner and some of her groups.
• other various things

That will do for now. More will come later.

Thanks for reading.

— Radan.