The Gantry: When Limiting Control Makes a Robot Feel More Responsive

July 12, 2026 - 9 mins read

Robotics

The Gantry: When Limiting Control Makes a Robot Feel More Responsive I just finished exhibiting my new robot, the Gantry, at Brixpo, the largest LEGO exhibit in the state. It’s a CoreXY gantry that lets people drive a mini LEGO car around a LEGO city, using a LEGO steering wheel, accelerator, and brake pedal. The Gantry uses hidden magnets, so the cars drive around as if by magic! The crowd ran it non-stop all weekend and everyone loved it.

Building a Digital Dosette

March 25, 2026 - 5 mins read

Building a Digital Dosette I’ve been wanting to do more embedded work with Rust on ESP32s and I had some 8x8 WS2812B LED panels collecting dust. I knew I wanted to build something, so I just had to create a problem to solve with Rust, ESP32s and RGB LEDs. The Concept Regular dosettes, the plastic containers with separate compartments for each day, work great for preparing a week of medication in advance.

Making a Chess Bot From Scratch

April 1, 2025 - 9 mins read

I’ve recently had the opportunity to tutor a chess prodigy. Our tutoring covers coding and robotics, so I gave him some chess-themed projects we could work on, and he jumped at the chance to program his own computer to play chess. At his level, I can’t teach him chess, but I can help him teach chess to a computer. This post covers a lot of the material I have development for him, and serves as an introduction to making AI play games and some simple techniques to optimise them.

University CTF 2023: BioBundle Writeup

December 11, 2023 - 16 mins read

Series: Reverse Engineering

Background I competed in the HackTheBox University CTF this year with the Flinders University Cybersecurity Society. The University CTF is an international competition for university students to compete as a team with their peers. The competiton had 955 teams this year. There were six types of puzzles in the CTF. I focused my efforts on the Reverse Engineering challenges, and was able to solve 2 of them. A reverse engineering challenge involves finding a secret flag hidden inside an executable application.