Blog on Cal Bryant

The cover image above is of the first Cydar HQ, a converted water mill in Cambridgeshire.

This post covers the background and design of Astralbrowser – a simple, fast file search engine I created.

Yep, that’s me dressed as Jaws1 from Moonraker.

Over the last 15 years (!)

A few years ago I developed a few clever ways of rackmounting non-rackmount equipment so it could look neat in my HiFi rack enclosure.1 The goal was to have a professional-looking setup that would support input from my TV, Spotify, AirPlay, DJ controller…

I really like the idea of a fully automated pipeline1 when I build anything – it’s highly satisfying to see a machine do all the work for you.

This post documents a saga of speaker design dating back to 2019.

I’ve since managed to get it working reliably!

Background Since the mid-2000s hobbyists have been building and flying quadcopter drones.1 Since then, the technology has been improved – and commercialised.

I’ve recently got into a bit of a rabbit hole with FPV quadcopter drones.1 Specifically with a “mini-whoop” style drone, the Meteor 75 Pro. ...sneak preview of the end product!

I recently upgraded from a Ryzen 3700X to a 5950X.

I have a cable broadband connection at home.