ElectronicZoologyfield notes from the garage
The Specimen

Who is the tech-ologist

We stand on the shoulders of giants when we build with knowledge gained from others' efforts. That doesn't make us giants. Be humble. Create with care. Open source is the way.

I'm Josh, a maker, tinkerer, and self-described tech-ologist based on the Bellarine Peninsula. The garage out back is the lab. The workbench is permanently occupied. The floor has more project boxes on it than I'm prepared to admit.

I've been pulling things apart since I was a kid, long before I had any idea how to put them back together. These days I mostly put them back together, usually into something they were never meant to be. Motors become controllers. Salvaged panels become displays. A toy train becomes a WiFi-enabled rolling experiment in embedded systems.

My tools of choice are microcontrollers, my preferred language is C++ (Arduino flavour), and my preferred debugging method is staring at something until it confesses. I run Arch Linux, work from a home garage, and have a wife and son who remain admirably tolerant of the whole operation.

Based

Bellarine Peninsula, Victoria

Habitat

Home garage: workbench, 3D printer, soldering station, too many half-finished projects

Field tools

ESP32, Raspberry Pi, Arch Linux, Arduino IDE, TinkerCAD, Meshroom, an Ender 3

Pronouns

he/him (always felt a bit like an alien but don't think there's a pronoun for that yet)

Find the tech-ologist

Instagram is the best place to catch me. If you've found something useful, spotted an error, or you're working on something weird and want to compare notes, get in touch.