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Currently: building, printing, and breaking things
Hi, I'mGiannis
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I fly FPV, 3d print parts for things that don't exist yet, and write code for fun. This is where the builds, the write-ups, and the mistakes worth documenting end up.
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Workshop Telemetry
Currently on the bench
Building
- Rebuilding the 5-inch quad
- A parts organiser I keep redesigning
- This website, endlessly
Learning
- Betaflight tuning, properly this time
- CAD that isn't guesswork
- Soldering without swearing
Otherwise
- Gaming
- Long walks with a camera
- Planning trips I may not take
Featured Build
From concept to hardware & software
Personal2026Active
DevWorkBench
DevWorkBench is a small, deliberately boring collection of developer utilities — the kind of thing you reach for five times a day and forget about the moment they work. What makes them different is how they work: everything runs in your browser, so sensitive JSON, configs and content never cross the network.
toolsdevdevworkbenchnextjs
More things from the workshop:
Interactive Lab
Tools built for real work
Engineering utilities developed to solve actual problems on the bench. Traced back to measured data, not arbitrary estimates.
238 Thrust Tests
Drone & RC Power Calculator
Propulsion dynamics interpolated directly from real, bench-tested motor and propeller measurements. Predict thrust, current draw, throttle curve, and flight endurance without guessing.
- Bench interpolated
- Real datasets
- LiPo / Li-ion / LiHV
Machine Shop Billing
3D Print Cost Engine
Commercial-grade quoting engine for FDM print jobs. Computes filament mass, real printer power draw, machine depreciation, labor, failure risk buffers, and margin with printable quote sheets.
- Filament catalog
- Machine depreciation
- Printable quotes
Canvas / 60 FPS
Starfall Arcade
Fast-paced retro browser space shooter written from scratch on the HTML5 Canvas API. Features procedural wave generation, particle physics, and Supabase daily & all-time leaderboards.
- HTML5 Canvas
- Global leaderboard
- Zero dependencies
Lab Notes
Field notes & experiments
9 min
Drone batteries: LiPo, Li-ion, LiHV — and which one your build needs
The battery is the fuel tank, and for drones the chemistry choice is one of the two, rarely both: lithium-polymer pouches are built to dump current, cylindrical lithium-ion cells are built to hoard energy. Here's how to read the numbers, what a consumer camera drone actually ships with, and when each one wins.
dronesbatteriesguide
4 min
Pricing 3D prints like a machine shop
How the cost engine at /print-cost works — filament by weight, energy from measured averages, machine depreciation, labor, failure buffers and margin — and why I added an "add your own printer or filament" queue instead of keeping the catalog closed. tags:
3d-printingtoolsengineering
3 min
Measuring beats guessing: a motor & propeller calculator built on 238 real thrust tests
Every number in this site's motor & propeller calculator is measured, not simulated — here's how it works, where the data comes from, and what it can and can't tell you.
calculatorfpvmotors
Build log
Things I've made, in order
- 1998Entry 1
First PC, immediately disassembled
The family living room
Took it apart to see how it worked, then spent a nervous afternoon putting it back together. It booted. I was hooked.
- 2018Entry 2
Started writing code properly
Self-taught, then not
Went from copying snippets to actually understanding them. Everything on this site downstream of that.
- 2026Entry 3
Starfall
ibakas.com/spaceshooter
A browser arcade shooter with a global leaderboard, built from scratch on a canvas. Still the most fun thing here.
Toolbox
Stuff I actually use
Next.js
This site runs on it
TypeScript
Types or it didn't happen
Supabase
Postgres without the ops
Bambu Lab X1c
Prints, mostly successfully
Betaflight & ArduPilot
Flight controller tuning
TS101 Soldering iron
The one that fixes everything
About
Hobbyist. Perpetually mid-build.
I've been taking things apart since I got my first PC in 1998, and I never really stopped. These days it's drones, 3D printers, and whatever code project has my attention.
The longer versionSay hi
Building something similar, spotted a mistake, or want to argue about props? My inbox is open.