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Cat Tree
A simple DIY cat tree built from leftover wood and sisal rope, adapted to survive balcony use better than the usual fluffy versions.
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Pedal Progression: 2 Suhr Riot
Pedal Progression continues with a Suhr Riot rebuild: rough old work, missing parts, and a plan to turn it into something better.
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Silence Your Guitar Amp: Variable Voltage Regulator
A variable voltage regulator lets a loud tube guitar amp keep more of its core feel while behaving better at home volumes.
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Homelab: 4 Family & apartment friendly server cabinet
A practical homelab cabinet build that makes multiple tiny servers easier to live with in an apartment or family setting.
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Amiga Next-Gen Build: 1 Sam440ep
An Amiga Next-Gen Build centered on the Sam440ep and the strange persistence of modern PowerPC Amiga hardware.
Pedal Progression
A growing series of guitar-pedal builds and experiments, grouped as a progression of different circuits and design choices.
Pedal Progression: 1 Range Master
21 November 2022
In this series I revisit and re-build some of my favorite guitar pedals. Here a treble booster is given some of the best vintage parts possible, protection circuitry, power supply filtering, a negative voltage supply, some indication circuitry, and a, very, shiny…
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Pedal Progression: 2 Suhr Riot
24 November 2025
This another one that was pulled out of the drawers, a "amp in a box", decent rock-box at least 15years ago, still today. Horrid drilling, ok soldering but missing pots, a broken diode and replacing parts, ceramics to start. For this, I…
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Pedal Progression: 3 Zendrive
1 December 2025
This is another pedal from almost two decades ago, a Hermida zen drive, repairing and rebuilding with better parts. A great overdrive more body and fuller than your standard overdrive. "dumble-like"-comes to mind. As with all old leftover pedals it's plagued by…
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