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Cal Bryant

calbryant.uk

DIY builds and deep technical guides on software, Linux, electronics, 3D printing, and FPV drones. Written by Cal Bryant, medtech engineer and maker.

ElectronicsLinux / UnixEmbedded / microcontrollersSoftware / engineering practiceDev tools / editors / IDEs

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34 from 11 Nov 2012 to 11 May 2026
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2026 2

  1. Moving on after 12 great years at Cydar, and my favourite projects
  2. Astralbrowser: designing an incredibly fast but niche file search engine

2025 5

  1. Ctrl+Alt+Drink: Adventures building a garden bar with a hidden motorised drinks cabinet
  2. Training a new AI voice for Piper TTS with only 4 words
  3. Rackmounting that which should not be rackmounted
  4. 3D printing giant things with a python jigsaw generator
  5. Design/build of some curved, fully parametric speaker cabinets

2024 5

  1. Hacking GPS into the Meteor 75 Pro, a tiny FPV drone
  2. A comprehensive guide to FPV drone technology
  3. DIY FPV flight simulator using a VTX, control receiver and HDMI converter
  4. Better PC cooling with Python and Grafana
  5. Semi-automatic whole-house iPhone internet failover with NixOS

2023 2

  1. CNC routing: speeds and feeds
  2. Destroying the right server with colour association

2021 1

  1. Pushing OpenSCAD to the max with discipline and imagemagick

2020 3

  1. The "ultimate" Thinkpad X230
  2. GPG Agent with a Yubikey for SSH, Code Signing and Passwords
  3. dsnet, a new CLI tool to manage a WireGuard VPN fast

2019 1

  1. Modifying my Gaggia Classic espresso machine with a PID controller

2018 3

  1. Universal wall mounted touchscreen bezel
  2. Large horn subwoofer build, for mountains of bass!
  3. dstask, a terminal based git powered task manager

2016 4

  1. 3D printed wall mounted touchscreen panels from cheap tablets
  2. ESP8266 based tank level sensor
  3. Quick hack: A chopping board VESA laptop stand
  4. HomePlug AV network failover

2015 3

  1. RCDoS: cause a power cut from your phone
  2. Dsdrop: instant file sharing server
  3. Introducing algalon, a network portal that measures health

2014 1

  1. DIY linkwitz-riley active crossover to get more out of my speakers

2013 2

  1. Introducing Megafilter, a ring buffer based RSS reader web app
  2. The demise of google reader

2012 2

  1. Simple node app deployment with git and forever
  2. Vim: hate it then love it