Simon Loffler
Builds the quiet machinery behind a museum of the moving image. Loves sensors, solar, and batteries. Adelaide, Australia — online as sighmon.
By day, a museum.By night, a soldering iron and a bot.
I write Python, Django, Ruby on Rails, iOS & Android — and arrived there by way of industrial design.
From Adelaide, I work remotely for ACMI in Melbourne, on the team that built the software and hardware under its renewal project — the stuff that powers the Lens and the exhibition devices.
Happiest with Terraform and Kubernetes in one hand, an Arduino or a Raspberry Pi in the other.
A founding member of MOD. museum (Digital Exhibitions Manager) and of the Adelaide Hackerspace.
I also build and look after the apps and websites of New Internationalist, a social & environmental justice magazine from Oxford, UK.
Lately, honest space data: a lunar south pole atlas, a space-weather replay, Mars surface power and optical links — every number sourced.
- Solar
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- Battery
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- Grid
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Things I've madeAn animatronic head. Voice chat with Samantha from Her. A CO2 sensor with its own case. And more.
- SpaceX TV appplication for AppleTV, iPad, Android, and Omarchy
- Mearth for iOS and macOS
- ACMI Reverb synced video captions
- ACMI Game Worlds digital interactives
- Tesla Powerwall application for AppleTV
- The anecdote machine
- ACMI Works embeddings explorer
- ACMI video image search
- ACMI x Wikidata exporter
- OS One
- ACMI video transcription search
- ACMI automated video transcriptions
- ACMI automated YouTube uploader
- ACMI researcher remote access
- CO2 sensor iOS & macOS / Arduino ESP32 / case
- XOS
- The ACMI Lens
- ACMI NFC Lens Reader
- ACMI public collections API
- Water quality sensors
- Solar powered Enviro+ air quality sensors
- MOD. website
- Animatronic head exhibit at MOD.
- Draw Your Pain exhibit at MOD.
- Double Agent exhibit at MOD.
- New Internationalist Magazine iOS app
- New Internationalist Magazine Android app
- New Internationalist Magazine digital edition
- New Internationalist Australia Fair Trade Shop
- Victory Patterns Lookbook for Boundless Style
- Timelapse Helper iOS and Android apps
- Hackerspace Adelaide logo design
- Mearth - SpaceApps Challenge entry 2013
Open sourceMy Rails gem for email has passed 10 million downloads.
Out loudMuseums, Linux, Python — and machines looking back.
sighmon saysNotes from the bench: solar air-quality sensors, CO2 at live gigs, a low-flow shower head.
Say hello.Put on your favourite music. Make a cup of tea. Then write.
Bonus round.For people who like puzzles.
A daily research gallery: each day a recent paper's maths — in climate, medicine, AI or materials — becomes an interactive demo, with a plain-language note on why it matters.