Wookey's home page

Personal

Links direct to stuff I do:

Caving

• Austrian Expeditions - going where none have gone before inside the Austrian Alps with CUCC.
  
• Survex - Multi-platform cave survey and display software
  
• Therion - Cave survey drawing-up and visualisation software
  
• Cave Surveying Group - (I'm Chairman)
  

House-fettling, DIY, car spannering

• LED lighting for houses done right.
• Building an extension to passivhaus principles (just hundreds of pics so far). (Some help from Builders here)
• Upgrading Electric moped (Sakura s50/Efun-A) from lead acid to lithium iron phosphate.
• Retrofitting a 1960s house to improve comfort/reduce carbon footprint (when I upload some pics).
• Solar PV installation. (OK, not DIY this one)
• Solar thermal installation.
• Fitting a woodburner flue liner.
• Making a bike trailer (coming one day).
• Some pics and comments from 1st house - more to come when I get round to it.
• Fibre-optic rear bike light monitor to save craning your head. Details of how to make one.

Work

• I'm currently a Free Software engineer at Linaro, working on ARM Linux.
• Previous job (2007-2010) was at Toby Churchill Ltd and iEndian doing embedded debian and Balloon boards and build systems.
  
• From 1992-2007 I worked at Aleph One Ltd on PC Cards for RiscOs machines, Embedded Arm Linux, Open Hardware and the YAFFS NAND Flash Filesystem. In 2001 I wrote a book on ArmLinux.
  

Computing (Free Software)

• I'm a Debian developer, working on Embedded Debian, the ARM (armel/armhf) ports, crossbuilding, bootstraping, multiarch, and assorted cave surveying packages.
  
• Emdebian. (I volunteered to be project lead). Emdebian is a scheme to make it easy for developers to use the resources of Debian to generate new embedded systems, via tools and documentation. It needs testers and coders - anyone with any enthusiasm for this idea is very welcome.
  
• PsiLinux project. I was involved with this cool project approx 2001-2005.
  

Talks and Presentations

I've given a lot of talks over the years, mostly on Free Software subjects with a few on Caving technology. Many of these are now available online

Other stuff that might conceivably be of interest:

• How to disassemble a Bosch DLE50 laser distance meter.
  
• How to disassemble an ipaq (original 36xx series) and fix the 'flipping screen' problem.
  
• How to take a Psion5 to bits
  
• Making a GPS<->psion serial cable
  

• Cycling - Cambridge Cycling Campaign
  
• Fight software patents - Excellent explanation of why you should worry about software Patents.
  The UK body dealing with this issue is FFII-UK - Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure. I'm on the Steering group.
  
• FSFE Freedom Task Force. I'm on the Open Hardware and Software Patent SIGs.
  

Holidays - Info and pics from some of my trips. Might also explain why I'm not responding to your queries right now.

Contacting me - email, post, phone, car, foot etc. Tel:(daytime) 01223 858045 (+44 1223 858045 from outside the UK, Time: GMT or GMT+1 in summer)
Email

Email contact

All these emails are me. These addresses sadly have to be obfuscated due to that activities of spammer scum - the bit before the colon (domain) goes after the @, the bit after (username) goes before.

• wookware.org:wookey
• linaro.org:wookey
• aleph1.co.uk:wookey
• survex.com:wookey
• debian.org:wookey
• arm.com:wookey01 (don't use this: ARM's email system sucks)
• chaos.org.uk:wookey (forwarding disconnected - don't use this one)