Following on from designing my own shelves and stands for prints off the A1 Mini, I’ve finally sat down and learned some proper CAD rather than just cobbling shapes together — first project is TinkerCAD, and the thing I picked to design is a shelf to hold my Unifi WiFi router.

It’s a simple, practical brief for a first go: something to mount the router flat and tidy rather than leaving it balanced wherever it’ll fit. TinkerCAD’s block-based approach made it an easy on-ramp — nothing like the intimidation of opening a full parametric CAD package for the first time — and it was enough to get a properly measured, functional design done in an evening.

Flickr album collecting prints off the Bambu Lab A1 Mini — a running photo dump alongside the write-ups, updated as new prints come off the bed.

doomheaven.uk is moving house.

It started life as a Doom fan site back in the late 90s — WADs, screenshots, whatever bits of Doom nonsense felt worth putting on the web at the time. It’s sat online quietly ever since, hosted the whole way through by teamhellspawn.com, who’ve now let me know they’re winding things down.

I want to say a proper thank you to them for that. Free webspace for the better part of three decades is a genuinely long time to keep something ticking over for no reason beyond being decent about it, and rather than just switching it off, they gave me the chance to get everything off in one piece before it went. Not everyone bothers with that on the way out, so it was appreciated.