What I Do

I'm a Python, Django, Ruby on Rails, iOS & Android developer who has a background in industrial design.

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. museum, and the Adelaide Hackerspace.

I built and maintain mobile apps, & websites for New Internationalist, a social & environmental justice magazine based in Oxford, UK.

My Work

Some of the work I'm most proud of.

Tesla Powerwall for AppleTV
ACMI video image search
ACMI x Wikidata exporter
OS One - voice chat with Samantha from the film Her using OpenAI ChatGPT
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
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 Digital Edition
New Internationalist Fair Trade Shop
Victory Patterns Lookbook - app to accompany Kristiann's Boundless Style book.
Hackerspace Adelaide logo.
Mearth Space App.

Recent project links:

  1. Tesla Powerwall application for AppleTV
  2. The anecdote machine
  3. ACMI Works embeddings explorer (post, code)
  4. ACMI video image search
  5. ACMI x Wikidata exporter (with Paul Duchesne)
  6. OS One - voice chat with Samantha from Her
  7. ACMI video transcription search
  8. ACMI automated video transcriptions
  9. ACMI automated YouTube uploader
  10. ACMI researcher remote access
  11. CO2 sensor iOS & macOS/Arduino ESP32/case
  12. XOS - ACMI's Django museum control system
  13. The ACMI Lens
  14. ACMI NFC Lens Reader
  15. ACMI public collections API
  16. Water quality sensors including BLE/iOS
  17. Solar powered Enviro+ air quality sensors
  18. MOD. website (project manager)
  19. Animatronic head exhibit at MOD.
  20. Draw Your Pain exhibit at MOD.
  21. Double Agent exhibit at MOD.
  22. New Internationalist Magazine iOS app
  23. New Internationalist Magazine Android app
  24. New Internationalist Magazine digital edition
  25. New Internationalist Australia Fair Trade Shop
  26. Victory Patterns Lookbook for Boundless Style
  27. Timelapse Helper iOS and Android apps
  28. Hackerspace Adelaide logo design
  29. 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.