Oh hello.

You've found the personal website of Simon Loffler from Adelaide Australia, otherwise known on the internet as sighmon.

What I Do

I'm a Python, Django, Ruby on Rails, iOS & Android developer who has a background in industrial design. One day a fortnight I build mobile apps, & websites for New Internationalist Australia, a social & environmental justice magazine based in Oxford, UK. The other nine days a fortnight I work for ACMI in Melbourne, Australia, remotely. I'm part of the technology team that built the software and hardware infrastructure of the renewal project, which powers the Lens and our exhibition devices.

I enjoy building software infrastructure with tools like Terraform and Kubernetes, as well as hardware prototyping/production electronics with Arduino and Raspberry Pis.

I was one of the founding members (Digital Exhibitions Manager) at MOD. a digital Museum of Discovery at the UniSA building on North Terrace, Adelaide.

Photo: ACMI constellation table.

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Who I Am

In my spare time I love to cycle, play basketball, take photos and tinker with electronics. I've helped setup a local Hackerspace, a street art festival & the format festival in Adelaide, Australia.

I'm a member of or donate to these organisations:

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My Work

A selection of the work I'm most proud of.

ACMI video image search
ACMI x Wikidata exporter
OS One - voice chat with Samantha from the film Her using OpenAI ChatGPT
ACMI video transcription search
ACMI automated video transcriptions
ACMI automated YouTube uploader
ACMI researcher lens - remote access to works in our collection
A CO2 sensor with hardware/software for iOS and macOS to help calculate the risk of Covid due to bad ventilation
XOS - ACMI's Django-based museum operating system
The ACMI Lens - collect museum objects to explore at home
ACMI NFC Lens Reader
ACMI public API
LoRaWAN water quality sensor
Solar-powered LTE air quality sensors
MOD. website
Josh - the animatronic head built at MOD.
Draw Your Pain iOS app at MOD.
Double Agent at MOD.
New Internationalist Magazine for iOS.
New Internationalist Magazine for Android.
New Internationalist Digital Edition
New Internationalist Fair Trade Shop
Victory Patterns Lookbook - app to accompany Kristiann's Boundless Style book.
Timelapse Helper for iOS and Android.
Hackerspace Adelaide logo.
Mearth Space App.
  1. ACMI Works embeddings explorer (post, code)
  2. ACMI video image search
  3. ACMI x Wikidata exporter (with Paul Duchesne)
  4. OS One - voice chat with Samantha from Her
  5. ACMI video transcription search
  6. ACMI automated video transcriptions
  7. ACMI automated YouTube uploader
  8. ACMI researcher remote access
  9. CO2 sensor iOS & macOS/Arduino ESP32/case
  10. XOS - ACMI's Django museum control system
  11. The ACMI Lens
  12. ACMI NFC Lens Reader
  13. ACMI public collections API
  14. Water quality sensors including BLE/iOS
  15. Solar powered Enviro+ air quality sensors
  16. MOD. website (project manager)
  17. Animatronic head exhibit at MOD.
  18. Draw Your Pain exhibit at MOD.
  19. Double Agent exhibit at MOD.
  20. New Internationalist Magazine iOS app
  21. New Internationalist Magazine Android app
  22. New Internationalist Magazine digital edition
  23. New Internationalist Australia Fair Trade Shop
  24. Victory Patterns Lookbook for Boundless Style
  25. Timelapse Helper iOS and Android apps
  26. Hackerspace Adelaide logo design
  27. Mearth - SpaceApps Challenge entry 2013

Conference talks

Links to the conferences I've presented at.

  1. FACT 2024 (slides, video)
  2. Linux Conference Australia (LCA) 2022 (video, slides)
  3. Museums and the Web 2021
  4. VALA tech camp 2021
  5. Linux Conference Australia (LCA) 2021 (video)
  6. Pycon Australia 2020 (video)

Open Source

Open source projects I've enjoyed working on.

  1. MJML-rails - email made easy
  2. Apple HomeKit accessory for Enviro+ in Go
  3. Solar-powered LTE air quality sensors
  4. LoRaWAN water quality sensor

Say Hello.

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If you'd like to email me, please pop an email to sighmon (at) sighmon (dot) com. You can also try messaging me on one of the social networks below. I like long form prose, so don't be scared to write your heart out.