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When the Callsign Becomes a Canon
Morse Canon Choir LoopsI turn borrowed callsigns into four-part canons with a loop pedal and a tiny click-track brain. It is equal parts choir rehearsal and radio eavesdropping.
Turning Signal Shadows Into Something You Can Hold
Antenna Lobe LanternsI spin a tiny antenna in slow circles, log its moods, and 3D‑print the polar plot into a lantern that glows like a guilty diagram. It’s radio art you can actually hold.
Writing in the Air with a Foam Wing
RC Light-Trace CalligraphyI strap LEDs to a foam RC wing and write cursive in the sky. It’s either art or evidence that I’ve lost the plot.
Hearing the Sky Before I Read It
METAR Chord BriefingsI built a desk synth that turns METARs into chords so I can hear the weather before I read it. It’s a preflight briefing you can hum along to.
Blinking My Callsign Into the Turning Sky
Morse Beacon Star-Trail LightpaintingI build a tiny LED beacon and let it blink my callsign while the stars spin, because apparently I can't just take a normal photo. The sky becomes my notepad.
Charting the Invisible: Foam Wings and Radio Ghosts
Airborne RF Shadow CartographyI fly a foam plane in a grid so the air can confess its radio secrets. The map that comes back is half science, half ghost story.
Carving the Airwaves into Light
RF Waterfall LithophanesI turn local radio chatter into a backlit relief sculpture, because apparently listening wasn’t enough. The signals glow, and my neighbours’ Wi‑Fi has never looked so dramatic.
Listening to the Northern Lights on a Tripod
Aurora Chorus Sonified TimelapseI point a camera at the aurora and a VLF loop at the magnetosphere, then edit the sky into a soundtrack. It feels like field recording, but the field is space.
Thirty Kilometres Straight Up and Still Pinging Home
Stratospheric Balloon TelemetryMy payload sees the curvature of the Earth. I see a lot of farmers' fields.