Tom Gidden

Yours truly This is my homepage, blog, site, or whatever you want to call it.

I’m a nerd living in Cambridge, England, working for Starberry in a varied role, from strategic to technical, getting my hands dirty with development, architecture, documentation, training, operations, and just about a bit of everything really; working with a large team of talented developers and telling them they’re doing it wrong, ie. not the way I’d do it.

Please don’t bother contacting me if you want to recruit me or add me to a database of people you want to get other people to recruit.

Interesting (geek) stuff I’m doing

  • I’ve home-automated some things; I’ve motorised a venetian blind with a servo and an Espruino; bed recline motors; lamps and monitors around the place; and all controlled from a web interface, various remote controls, buttons, etc. all feeding into a Raspberry Pi.

  • I’ve 3D printed things with my CEL Robox which I was proud to beta-test.

  • I play with various ideas using nRF51822, nRF52, ESP8266, ESP32, Atmel, RP2040, ARM devices to do various Internet-of-Things things.

  • I’ve built (and continue to rebuild) an anglepoise stand for my iPad Pro, the iPad-Hold-a-Tron 2000™, which is on its tenth iteration (or thereabouts) after being upgraded and repaired several times.

  • I’ve also experimented with three- and four-dimensional Lyapunov fractals using OpenCL / OpenGL ray-casting programs of my own design; and keep meaning to do some more research in that direction.

  • I also have some big tech ideas that I wish I had the time and stamina to develop further. They’d change the world if someone gave me some funding and a team of people to help do it.

  • In 2018 I took up the hobby of fountain pens, ink and stuff. This is what a lot of more recent posts were about.

More

  • GitHub… although nothing much there at the moment, to be honest.
  • Bluesky… although I don’t post much there.
  • Threads… although I don’t post much there either.
  • Facebook… although I keep my friends list to people I know in real life.
  • LinkedIn… although I usually ignore stuff on there, as it’s almost always recruiters.
  • Flickr… although I stopped posting photos there when I stopped carrying a camera with me.

Saying that, I’m personable and friendly, and if you say Hi, I’ll be happy to take time to talk… as long as you’re not a recruiter or a spammer, of course. I’m just apathetic about writing websites for “fun”.

Love,

tom at gidden dot net