Rob Couper Rob Couper

The workshop

Projects

Home builds, experiments and the occasional over-engineered solution to a simple problem.

The HP PC that became the NAS
Write-up in progress

Home NAS Build

I started paying for Google's cloud storage a few years ago after exceeding the free 15 GB limit, and got to brainstorming a better solution. The answer: a home NAS built on TrueNAS with Tailscale for secure remote access — centralised storage, media hosting and a platform for our personal projects.

Full write-up in progress — watch this space!

Screenshot of the website
Write-up in progress

Personal Website Build

The build story of this website — from a hand-rolled HTML/CSS first version to a Markdown-driven Eleventy site with an interactive 3D travel globe.

Write-up coming soon...