AKSHAY NAYAK

Media by profession. Maker by curiosity.

Creator

The Story

I like building things because it is one of the fastest ways to understand them. Reading about something tells you how it is supposed to work. Trying to build it teaches you how it actually works.

The Setup

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 9600X
GPU: NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti 16GB
RAM: 32GB DDR5

Part workstation, part lab, part excuse to try another experiment.

> Deep Dives

Building: Custom 3D-printed enclosures
Learning: Local LLMs and agentic workflows
Obsessed with: Optimizing print layer adhesion

Field Notes

Running a 30B model locally

My GPU fans sound like a jet engine, but it actually wrote functional Python code.

Brittle 3D Prints

Discovered that leaving PLA out in high humidity turns it into dry spaghetti.

Workshop

The Workshop

⚙️ Hardware & AI

Bambu Lab A1 mini: Designing, printing, and testing mechanical prototypes.
Local AI: Running LLMs locally on my own hardware using Ollama and LM Studio.
Microcontrollers & IoT: Tinkering with sensors to bridge code and physical hardware.
Raspberry Pi Home Servers: Self-hosting lightweight tools and custom automation.
Workflow Automation: Writing Python and custom scripts to eliminate digital busywork.

🪦 The Graveyard

Projects that failed, caught fire, or were abandoned:

Homemade Hovercraft: Turns out physics is hard.
Automated Plant Waterer: Drowned the succulents within a week.
Smart Mirror: Looked cool, but broke the display trying to fit it in the frame.
Smart Doorbell: Over-engineered to death.

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Playground

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Day Job

I work in the media field, but I also take on freelance development projects. I build custom websites, apps, 3D prototypes, and IoT solutions based on whatever the requirement calls for.