scifidad

@scifidad.com

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Father, futurist, sci-fan, technologist, board- and video-gamer. Makes robots, mechanical keyboards, and retro computing devices. Falling through spacetime at the speed of causality like all the rest.

Two "soy fish" lamps in progress, and a dinosaur of some kind.
A small green 3d-printed case for a Mac Mini in the shape of a Silicon Graphics Indigo2. Wrong colour, but still cool. Lemon on top for scale.
The64 "Maxi", in box.
Close-up on the grey and white face of a sleeping ragdoll cat.
The motherboard of a HP thin client PC mounted to a mini-rack tray, surrounded by various panels and tools and cards and screws.
The NextBASIC screen, bright white in a dark room. No program has yet been entered.
A ZX Spectrum NGO in a "classic" case sites between a Keychron K10 Pro and a printed manual for the ZX Spectrum Next.
Douk Audio X1 hybrid amp, close-up.
Advertisement for The A1200 from Retro Games Ltd, available in December 2026.
Small printed replica of the BeBox, a mid-90s PC from Be Inc, with a blue body and a bright yellow faceplate.
A stamped leather coaster, green dye and yellow stitching, held at arm's length inside a car.
Lenny (a white ragdoll) sits on a cold barbeque, falling asleep.
A very dusty internal fan in a 2018/2019 MacBook Pro.
Gary Oldman in Slow Horses.
A brassy cryptex in a box with clue cards. Visible are: "A man for all seasons, and more!", "I doubt it, said the apostle", "...a need, a need for speed".
A small red ceramic cup sits on a silver MacBook laptop, surrounded by a Keychron mechanical keyboard and a USB network card.
Screenshot from Outer Worlds 2. Blue cliffs, weird alien trees, a metal bridge.
Brick wall, pale blue sky. A coffee in a paper cup. A laptop showing markdown engineering documentation in Zed.
Close-up of the screen of a Thermalright Assassin Spirit 120 Vision ARGB CPU cooler, reading 64°C and 70% load.
Frank Langella as Thomas Moore, and Skeletor.
An AI-generated website with many errors. Reads: "AstroComp—Safeuguard Your Crew's Compentation Acrass the Cosmos”.
A blond teenager wearing a VR headset and controlling a racing game with a Logitech steering wheel.
An urban balcony, brick wall in the background, a chair, and potted plants to the fore.
A work colleague I went out with for drinks and roadmap planning, with a cartoon face courtesy of Gemini to preserve anonymity. Background shows a bar, tables and barrels under a patterned ceiling.
Nothing Phone 3 in a rubber-edged case.
A "Bondi bar" on a glass fence, with a pot of various herbs sitting on it. The green herbs blend with green trees beyond the fence.
White ragdoll cat sitting on a stool and pulling a funny face as he licks the side of his mouth.
The Lego Game Boy, assembled.
Lego Game Boy set, kit 72046.
The skeletal remains of a mineshaft head 🙂‍↕️ n theiddle of town, against a dramatic sky and hazy sun.
A dusty red landscape in central Australia. A teenager sits on a rock with an SLR camera. He wears a black helmet (added by AI, for preserving privacy).
A still from Foundation S1E1 shows a silhouetted Salvor Hardin against the mysterious Vault
A storage cage behind a parking space, mostly empty, with the majority of the space taken up by plastic boxes, bikes, camping gear, etc.
"Diaspora", by Greg Egan, paperback. A small 3D-printed Xenomorph rubber duck sits atop the cover.
The smallest makerspace, with a shelving unit on the left and an old/outdated 3D printer in the right. Behind both is an IKEA SKÅDIS pegboard with headphones, rulers, a USB cable, and a wifi router
A 3D printer hotend, looking thoroughly burnt and clogged, sits on a metal plate print bed. Behind it (and slightly out of focus) the newly installed one can be seen poking out of the hotend enclosure.
Closet with sliding doors, interior. Shelves below contain plastic drawers and baskets, while desk-level is lit by a single LED and houses an Anycubic 3D printer, IKEA pegboard, cutting mat, and file storage cube.
Haiku "About this system" app Version: hrev57937+113 R1/beta5 (x86_64) 4 Processors: Intel Atom @ 1.80 GHz 4096 MiB Memory: 689 MiB used (17%) Kernel: September 12, 2024 at 9:59:37 PM Time running: 5 minutes, 13 seconds
Kernel debugger?? A white panel with black text overlays the Haiku desktop.
Acer Revo R3700 running Haiku R1/beta5.
Disassembled Gateron switches, plastic parts drying on a piece of paper towel, metal parts in a container with needle-nose tweezers. Multimeter stands ready for post-assembly testing.
A partially disassembled Keychron K8Pro keyboard, with spare switches, isopropyl, tools, and keycaps drying on a piece of paper towel.
A screenshot from Doom. An enemy runs towards our sizeable gun (an Impaler). Ruins and glowing runes make up the scene.
Neofetch output: OS: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) x86_64 Host: Aspire R3700 Kernel: 6.1.0-34-amd64 Uptime: 14 mins Packages: 442 (dpkg) Shell: bash 5.2.15 Resolution: 2048x1152 Terminal: /dev/pts/0 CPU: Intel Atom D525 (4) @ 1.794GHz GPU: NVIDIA ION Memory: 109MiB / 1966MiB
A glass of scotch atop an Acer Aspire Revo low-powered PC released in 2010.
Cassian Andor in profile, next to a rope-bound tree branch.
A red digital multimeter from AliExpress sitting on a wooden table with probes and the original box it came in. The box reads "2in1 oscilloscope multimeter".
A ZX Spectrum (new case) connected to a monitor and joystick and showing the NextZXOS home screen. Under the joystick is a printed, spiral-bound manual
A painting by Lewis Jones of a Black Templar, from a video by Midwinter Minis.
Preview of a new theme for scifidad.com.
BANDAI Hobby KIT HG AMAIM 1/72 AARONRHINO, from "Kyoukai Senki".
A beach scene. Waves crash on black rocks.
Abby slips and falls down a snowy incline and into a pit of the infected. After this, she's going to wanna run...
Title page of "Polostan" by Neal Stephenson, signed.
A very messy hobby table with a lot of plastic "bitz" (read: junk) spread out on a grey cutting mat and surrounded by paints, glue, primed models, Gunpla pieces and a sandy base.
A tiny plastic robot stands in front of a rack of miniature paints. Other bots in foreground and beside.
A white and grey ragdoll licks a bowl of ice.
A close up of an Atlassian JIRA (task management) screen which shows 16x16 pixel icons for issue types. The "bug" type by default is a white shape on a red background—and now my white shape has six tiny legs.
Idobo75 ortholinear mechanical keyboard from YMDK.
Cover art from Wolfenstein: New Order. A grim and rugged BJ Blazkowicz cradles an enormous gun while standing at a concrete corner, evocative of the original Wolfenstein game art.