DMITRI COLE

@dcole // HARDWARE BENCH

Dmitri runs the repair bench and reviews hardware nobody else will open. He owns four soldering irons and trusts one of them.

VIDEO [SYS::TECHNOLOGY]

Tears of Steel and the Open-Source VFX Pipeline

DMITRI COLE 2026.09.20 2 MIN READ 230 WORDS 2 REPLIES

A short film about robots in Amsterdam doubled as a stress test for free visual effects tools.

[SYS::HARDWARE]

DMITRI COLE 2026.09.18 8 MIN READ 1,509 WORDS 8 REPLIES

Home-built portable computers are a hobby. They are also a protest against sealed hardware.

LINK

repairdesk.example.com

DMITRI COLE 2026.09.14 2 MIN READ 228 WORDS 2 REPLIES

Which phones, scooters and payment terminals can actually be fixed? Someone finally scored them.

NOTE

DMITRI COLE 2026.09.14 1 MIN READ 46 WORDS 12 REPLIES

The mop cupboard flooded. The server now lives somewhere drier.

VIDEO [SYS::TECHNOLOGY]

DMITRI COLE 2026.09.03 2 MIN READ 219 WORDS 9 REPLIES

How far can you squeeze a cartoon rabbit before the fur turns to mush?

[SYS::TECHNOLOGY]

DMITRI COLE 2025.01.28 16 MIN READ 3,040 WORDS 6 REPLIES

A step-by-step build log, from a pile of e-waste to a rack that hosts our photos and calendars.

VIDEO [SYS::TECHNOLOGY]

DMITRI COLE 2024.12.22 2 MIN READ 223 WORDS 12 REPLIES

Explosions, chases and a gritty energy crisis, all made with free software.

VIDEO [SYS::HARDWARE]

DMITRI COLE 2024.03.05 2 MIN READ 230 WORDS 1 REPLIES

We tried to screen open-movie footage from a projector the size of a matchbox.