A2e
(Apple //e rebuilt)
The Apple //e was a fixture of my childhood — a machine I associated with school computer labs, floppy disk carousels, and Oregon Trail. When I spotted one gathering dust in a middle school classroom, I struck a deal with the teacher who owned it: she'd give me the machine if I printed every crossword puzzle she had stored on her disks. I spent weeks after school feeding floppies and listening to a dot matrix printer grind its way through the stack, one puzzle at a time.
The machine came home with me and stayed in my life for years. Eventually the disk drive gave out, BASIC stopped responding, and one day it simply didn't power on anymore.
The heavily modified casing now houses an Orange Pi 3 LTS running a CLI Pandora client. It lives in my workshop and serves as my "radio" of sorts.
AZIM
(Getac S400 G3 rebuild)
AZIM is a fully custom daily-driver laptop built from the casing of a Getac S400 G3 field computer. Every original component was removed and replaced: a LattePanda 3 Delta (Intel N5105, 8GB LPDDR4) on Debian 13 Trixie, with a 512GB NVMe primary drive, 64GB eMMC backup, and a hot-swappable SATA drive bay.
Hardware additions grant USB-C docking abilities, four programmable function buttons, and eight programmable status LEDs. Input is handled by a Keychron K3 mechanical keyboard.
The exterior was hand-masked and painted with a tapering stripe pattern in orange and beige — a deliberate cassette futurism aesthetic that makes the machine as distinctive to look at as it is to use. The name is Turkish, meaning determination — a fitting descriptor for a project that demanded it.
Buick Radio
(1956 car radio rebuild)
Similar to the A2e project, this 1956 Buick car radio has had its broken innards replaced with a Raspberry Pi 3 and a nice pair of speakers.
Driving the same Pandora CLI client, but this time running a green phosphor CRT emulator on a wide OLED display.
Chrome buttons were added for player controls and a separate Bluetooth remote was built for convenience.
// ABOUT
My builds are meant to be handled and believed.
My work spans fabrication disciplines and aesthetic registers from clean factory-fresh enclosures to hardware that looks like it's logged decades in the field. I've built fully functional custom computers in vintage chassis, industrial pipe lamps with real valve hardware, steampunk copper flash drives, and networked music players in steel enclosures with green phosphor displays.
My background in Information Technology shows in how I approach a build. I think in tolerances and edge cases. I care about what happens when something is actually used, not just photographed. That discipline, applied to fabrication, means the things I build work as well as they look.
I'm based outside Boston. I take commissions for prop builds, custom hardware pieces, and functional one-offs.