Ian Carey
Engineer | Maker | YouTube Creator
youtube.com/@careyian
- Trying a bit of short form content at the moment while we do some DIY on our new home, what do you guys think? #maker #ikea #diy
- Incredible Aurora over Wicklow tonight, never seen anything like it
- Over the xmas period, I had loads of free time, so I worked on my workshop renovations every spare minute I had. I built these storage shelves and workbench, it's really starting to come together now! youtu.be/m_YvkvBbKmc #maker #making #woodworking #workshop #renovations
- Finished up this rolling workbench with storage today, very happy with how they turned out! #maker #making #woodworking #workshop
- Well that's a wrap for Advent of Code 2025, honestly I am really happy with this new format, I now feel free for the rest of the month, big thanks to @was.tl for this year, and all years really! Also a shoutout to the mods over on the subreddit who do great work. #adventofcode #maker #making
- Day 12: Well, that was disappointing! In one way I'm happy it wasn't the hard thing, but on the other hand, I'm so disappointed it was the easy thing! github.com/careyi3/aoc/... #adventofcode #maker #making #programming
- Day 11: Second last day! This one should have been some respite after the last two day, but I made a bunch of stupid mistakes that ended up messing me up, got there in the end and it was totally fine! github.com/careyi3/aoc/... #adventofcode #programming #maker #making
- Day 10: Very much defeated by today, part 1, we got these eventually, but part 2 is not happening for me! Oh well, streak is broken for this year! Let's see what tomorrow holds... github.com/careyi3/aoc/... #adventofcode #maker #making #programming
- Day 9: Damn, this one killed me today, I spent way too long overthinking this, tried a raycasting algo, but the data set is just too big... Then I did something way easier after hours of struggle and it worked... but it's slow! github.com/careyi3/aoc/... #adventofcode #programming #maker #making
- Day 8: Well, I was super busy today, and just my luck it was the spicest day yet! A fairly big step up in complexity today, I also thought it was cheeky that the sample answers he gave were a different ask to the real answer! github.com/careyi3/aoc/... #adventofcode #programming #maker #making
- Advent of Code 2025 Day 7 visualisation, DFS go brrrrr #adventofcode #rust #programming #maker #making
- Day 7: I enjoyed today, fun recursively walking a tree, with caching to the rescue for part 2! github.com/careyi3/aoc/... #adventofcode #programming #rust #maker #making
- Day 6: Purely an exercise in parsing text... Not something I'm very fond of in Rust! Bsy day today, but found the time to sit down and write some grindy code to get it done. github.com/careyi3/aoc/... #adventofcode #programming #maker #making
- Advent of Code 2025 Day 4 visualisation written in Rust WASM, working on a small framework to do more than just grids atm, lots of fun! #adventofcode #rust #programming #maker #making
- Day 5: Fun one today, I'm certain almost this exact type of problem came up before, reducing and combining ranges, took me a minute to draw out te combinations for part 2, but we got there! github.com/careyi3/aoc/... #adventofcode #rust #programming #maker #making
- Day 4: Easier puzzle today, I was wondering when we would see our first grid type one! Simple enhancement on part 1 solves part 2 very easily. github.com/careyi3/aoc/... #adventofcode #programming #rust #maker #making
- Day 3: Little bit of a head scratcher, part 2 had the classic, "and now do it for a much larger number", got to a nice solution in the end! Part 1: ~120us Part 2: ~300us github.com/careyi3/aoc/... #adventofcode #programing #maker #making
- Day 2 done, I couldn't come up with a nice way to do part 2, so I just wrote something to get the job done! Here ya go: github.com/careyi3/aoc/... #adventofcode #programming #maker #making
- The most wonderful time of the year has started! Yes, that's right, Advent of Code is back! D1 was fun, I'm not sure if it was harder than previous years, but with only 12 this year, I guess it's going to ramp faster! github.com/careyi3/aoc/... #adventofcode #rust #programming #maker #making
- I've been working on a side project for a while now, it's a web based CNC control software written in Rust and React. I posted about it before, but I talk a bit about it in this video and I've made the source code public, feel free to take a look! #cnc #maker #making #rust #react
- It's been a minute since I published anything... I've been busy! youtu.be/At8I2o_hIJ8 #maker #making #workshop
- I've been working on a web based GRBL CNC controller that runs on a Raspberry Pi! It's written in React & Rust, still in very early Alpha phase, but working great so far! #programming #cnc #grbl #rust #react
- I'm working on a Rust & React web based CNC control software targeting GRBL. I'm documenting the process, step one was getting GRBL running on an Arduino Nano for testing and getting it to talk to a Rust app. Enjoy! youtu.be/i5hnKkdayv0 #programming #embedded #rust #arduino #cnc #grbl
- I FINALLY got to the final result of this side quest, really happy with the results, there is way more I could do, but for now, this one is done! youtu.be/VcWXn8B9RoE #maker #making #programming #rust #electronics #embedded
- I published my first ever Rust crate the other day, it's a minimal FAT32 client written in no_std rust to target a specific embedded platform, but thanks to how awsomely portable rust is, it runs everywhere! crates.io/crates/fat32rs #maker #making #programming #coding
- Follow up to my last video, I finally figured out how to write to a FAT32 disk, so I now have a minimal FAT32 driver written in Python! Next step, migrate it to Rust! youtu.be/aZoriHOTQ-k #programming #python #rust #maker #making
- I took on a bit of a side quest with a project recently, and well it's turned into a main mission! Learning lots about the FAT32 file system and file systems in general, they are just big piles of bytes with some pattern that tells you what they mean, you heard it here first! 😂 #maker #programming
- Kind of bittersweet, spent some time breaking down my first ever 3dprinter for parts over the weekend! I recently upgraded and don't have room for this anymore. It's not hyperbole to say this machine changed my life, opened up a world of possibilites! #maker #making #3dprinting #ender3v2
- It took me so long to make this! Sorry I've been slow with my most recent video, I've been really busy, anyway, in this one I try and make my own RC plane, enjoy! youtu.be/ghBVwTq9fDo #rc #rcplane #sdprinting #maker #making
- Here is a solid ramble for you guys about getting up and running with a CLI for Advent of Code in Rust! Hope you guys enjoy #rust #adventofcode #aoc #rustlang #programming #maker #making youtu.be/NTfteWMUPz0
- Foucault’s Pendulum @ Copernicus Science Centre, Warsaw 🇵🇱 #science youtube.com/shorts/OrG8r... #physics
- Driving Spot @ Copernicus Science Centre, Warsaw 🇵🇱 #robot #spot #bostondynamics youtube.com/shorts/o46Vo... #spot #bostondynamics
- Conway’s Game of Life @ Copernicus Science Centre, Warsaw 🇵🇱 youtube.com/shorts/y3Ubk... #programming #conwaysgameoflife
- Kinetic Air Sculpture @ Copernicus Science Centre, Warsaw 🇵🇱 #art youtube.com/shorts/KYNDB... #science
- The science museum in Warsaw is AWESOME! Got to see loads of cool stuff, but the absolute highlight was driving spot around!
- I tried my hand a turning a wooden bowl recently, it’s not perfect, but I learned a lot and made a nice thing! #woodworking #woodturning #making #maker
- If anyone knows where I can get a beard hair net… Hola at ya boy… #maker #making #woodturning #woodworking #beard youtube.com/shorts/wy853...
