Project index / Lab record
Things worth figuring out.
Recovered appliances, repurposed control surfaces, live infrastructure, and preservation work—documented far enough that the next person does not have to begin at zero.
01 / Documented work
Recovery and engineering.
Long-form project records include the evidence, failed paths, working configuration, and preservation boundaries—not only the happy ending.
Digital Loggers LPC
External NOR programming and byte-level analysis recover a controller after its web firmware update stalls.
Crestron TSW-750 Revival
A discontinued touchpanel becomes a modern control surface with its intelligence moved to an Ubuntu service.
PacketShaper 1550
Custom QEMU hardware behavior, firmware analysis, and a runtime shim produce a repeatable automatic cold boot.
Apfel Foundry
PXE-booted compute workers, archival workflows, disk analysis, scientific jobs, and a web console for making old and odd data useful again.
02 / Live and preserved
Systems with a pulse.
Some projects are better experienced directly: connect to the BBS, inspect service health, or browse the machine collection.