I’m Andy Allen. The real one. Not the Australian chef, the American astronaut or the Canadian christian musician.

I build things. Mostly software, but the hardware stuff is easier to photograph, so that's what gets posted here.

I'm a tinkerer, a dad, a household spider relocation specialist, and a cook. I have a particular weakness for cured and smoked meats.

Danger is my son (17 years old), Sweet Pea is my daughter (14), and I really do call them that sometimes.

When I'm not building things at home, I build software at Clairvoyant. Once I officially invented US Patent 9,298,697, but I don't really use it daily.