My day job is as an engineer developing IP for Xilinx but I'm also interested in audio and music electronics, sound design and post-lunch naps.

I used to be on IRC but forgot my nick recovery password so now I'm not.

I've been licensed as a radio amateur since 1996 with the callsign GM7WFT. I'm learning CW and would like to get properly started with SOTA.

• Safety socket for reducing the danger of working on high voltage power supplies
• RIAA Valve Phono Preamp

• An overdrive pedal for guitar that's knocked off from a well known design.
• HP34S Calculator mod

• Reflow Oven (with Al Bennett)
• Stuck node tracer
• 5W power-scaled class-A guitar amp head

• 25W class-AB power scaled guitar amp head
• TI SN76477 + SID-based synthesiser module

• I was the third person in Dundee to see Halley's Comet in 1986
• I am tenuously related to Tim Burton.