Hi there! I am Kyratech and you find yourself on my personal website. This is where I organise and show off all of the various creative projects that I work on. I hope that they bring you some fraction of the joy that they bring me!
Although I am a web dev by trade, I actually have little experience making a website from scratch. I have worked on existing projects using a variety of technologies, but never had to decide what tech stack to use since someone else has already made that decision for me. So when I set out to make this website, I, like the foolish rube that I am, decided to google “How to make a website”.
18 May 2023
What am I currently up to?
Stuff I am working on
Replacing the banner images for this website
Carpentry 2024, colourised
Since first creating this website, I have updated my persona to be a machine woman instead of a flesh and blood monster girl. One of my current projects is to update my page banners with the new avatar, but I am going to do them in 3D this time round. As a result, I need to create a bunch of props before I can render out the new pictures.
EXOTURBINE
It's still too early to really show off, but I'm getting there!
Arcade hover racing action! I'm slowly plugging away at a prototype for a racing game that I've wanted to make for years, ever since I worked on mods for a particular WipEout-inspired game. My inspirations are Star Wars Episode 1 Racer, WipEout Fusion, WipEout Pure, Redout, Motorstorm, Oban Star Racers, and most likely Redline once I get around to watching that. I plan on recording my progress in blog posts once I have a core system that I'm confident is worth developing further.
A custom handheld computer
The parula keyboard fits nicely under the RGB30, but I can't say that I like pressing the 4mm buttons that it's compatible with.
I recently acquired a Powkiddy RGB30 and I have big plans for this thing. I know that the charging circuits are pretty flakey, and some people in the community have determined that the batteries that the device comes with might not be appropriate for the charging system. I am in the process of adding a safe charging breakout board, hopefully with some larger capacity cells.
I am also testing out different thumb keyboards, which I would like to add to the bottom of the device to turn it into a proper little cyberdeck. I haven't decided whether it will be detachable or built in yet, it depends what I can achieve with the tools that I have available!
Stuff that I am playing
FF14 Dawntrail
If you come at the queen, you better not miss.
I am in the last zone, so this is actually nearly finished! I'm loving Dawntrail a whole lot as a pace change from Shadowbringers and Endwalker - it's nice to be the cool veteran coaching a plucky kid through her first proper adventure, and it's fun that when things get serious, everyone is like "do not worry, we have brought with us the infantry equivalent of a nuclear warhead!" and I get to swing my big sword around. I really love my protege Wuk Lamat, I can't wait to see fanart from the rest of the communi-GOOD LORD WHAT ARE THEY SAYING ABOUT HER?
Armored Core, Gen 1
Audience is gonna have a Samus moment when I get out of my mech.
I am going to play all of the Armored Core games through in order (except maybe 5 because its core feature is its now-dead online mode) because I love 3 and 6 so much that I wanted to experience the evolution of the series from start to present. I just wrapped up Project Phantasma, which means I'm on the last of the generation 1 games, Master of Arena. Part of me is glad that I never had these games as a kid because I don't think the world could survive the level of mech pervert it would have turned me into.
