From Busted Screen to Fully Functional Satellite Radio
Repairing an ID-5100A head unit with replacement touch screen and LCD parts sourced directly from Icom Australia.
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Projects / workshop
Built, tested, repaired, and occasionally persuaded.
Hardware builds, field experiments, software systems and repair work—kept with enough detail to show what survived contact with reality.
- Published
- 7
- Featured
- 3
- Formats
- 7
- Last updated
- 2026-09-05
Front bench
Featured projects
The Birds They Saw
A living collection connecting historical art of Australian birds, their names then and the names that describe those birds today.
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Local Signals
A live-ish backyard dashboard for weather and bird activity, fed by a couple of Raspberry Pis that were already quietly collecting data at home.
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A local-first tabletop character companion built for playing a character, not just entering one into a database.
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Kite-Lifted 40 m End-Fed Activation
Taking a very predictable 40 m EFHW, hanging it under a kite, and finding out what happens once the antenna refuses to sit still.
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