I’m Pete, living near Caernarfon in North Wales. If I’m not poking around in Eryri/Snowdonia, I’m probably in front of a screen, a server, or a half‑finished project.
I’ve spent a lot of time around IT and maintenance systems – the sort of CMMS and IWMS software that keeps big, boring, important things running. Now that I’ve retired I tend smaller, more chaotic challenges: keeping a home server(s) alive, persuading a Synology NAS to behave, sometimes seeing how far I can push a Raspberry Pi or Arduino before it sulks.
When I escape outdoors, it’s usually walking in the hills, fishing the local lakes or rivers, or hunting Tupperware in the countryside sometimes with our geocaching crowd. I also help wrangle the 9 Usual Suspects, a North West Wales geocaching group, which mostly involves organising events and trying not to lose people on walks or litter picks.
Then there’s the camper van – a 2015 Relay – which has become a permanent rolling project: electrics, Victron bits, batteries, rewiring that which previous owners had “improved”, and general fettling. It’s part escape pod, part mobile workshop.
Indoors, I like making things that may or may not work first time: 3D printing, DIY electronics, fixing old kit that should probably be retired, and baking bread. The bread is mostly powered by a Panasonic machine and decent flour; the whisky is there for when it doesn’t rise properly.
This site doesn’t have a grand mission. It’s just my corner of the internet to keep notes, share what I’ve learned (usually the hard way), and document the odd success among the failures. If you’re into geocaching, camper vans, servers, printing plastic or just nosing around other people’s hobbies, you’re in the right place.