I’m Cal Bryant; VP of Engineering by day, obsessive tinkerer by night. Expect deep dives, photos, and code you can reuse.
About the author – my background and why I write.
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Astralbrowser: designing an incredibly fast but niche file search engine
Jan 2026
18 min read
Training a new AI voice for Piper TTS with only 4 words
Jul 2025
20 min read
Rackmounting that which should not be rackmounted
Mar 2025
12 min read
3D printing giant things with a python jigsaw generator
Jan 2025
12 min read
Design/build of some curved, fully parametric speaker cabinets
Jan 2025
24 min read
Hacking GPS into the Meteor 75 Pro, a tiny FPV drone
Oct 2024
9 min read
A comprehensive guide to FPV drone technology
Oct 2024
33 min read
Better PC cooling with Python and Grafana
Mar 2024
16 min read
Semi-automatic whole-house iPhone internet failover with NixOS
Feb 2024
7 min read
CNC routing: speeds and feeds
Feb 2023
14 min read
Destroying the right server with colour association
Feb 2023
5 min read
Pushing OpenSCAD to the max with discipline and imagemagick
Oct 2021
12 min read
The "ultimate" Thinkpad X230
Sep 2020
14 min read
GPG Agent with a Yubikey for SSH, Code Signing and Passwords
May 2020
14 min read
dsnet, a new CLI tool to manage a Wireguard VPN fast
May 2020
5 min read
Modifying my Gaggia Classic espresso machine with a PID controller
Jan 2019
12 min read