Jack Wormgoor
Builder, experimenter, and creator. Radio propagation tooling, workshop projects, a locally-run AI, and a 200-site portfolio I keep alive. Some Dutch Caribbean property on the side.
Builder, experimenter, and creator. Radio propagation tooling, workshop projects, a locally-run AI, and a 200-site portfolio I keep alive. Some Dutch Caribbean property on the side.
About
Started with a camera and a drift trolley. Now it's wireless comms experiments, a 3D radio propagation simulator, a locally-running AI, and 200 live websites I keep maintained, improved, and tested for vulnerabilities. I manage the deadlines across all of it without dropping anything.
I'm drawn to problems with real-world weight: things that need to survive actual use, be explained clearly, and do exactly what they're supposed to. Lately the focus has been radio systems, and how defence-grade communications behave at the hardware level. The RF and electronics builds come out of the same interest.
Code-wise I work in Python, Lua, SQL, and whatever the job needs. I document the interesting parts on YouTube.
Current build
Plenty of tools model RF coverage. None of them let you fly around the terrain, drag a parameter, and watch the signal redraw itself. That gap is the whole project.
It runs in the browser and puts four things in one place:
I looked hard for something that already did this before starting. Every tool below is good at part of it. None of them do the whole job, and that's the honest case for building it.
Selected projects
Build · Mechanical
Took a kids' electric ride-on and decided it wasn't finished. Custom chassis, two-stroke engine, proper brakes, clean controls. It had to actually run.
Build · Mechanical
Motorised drift trolley. Lightweight, chaotic, and surprisingly controllable once it was dialled in. Built it, filmed it, put it out.
Radio · RF
Started as a car FM transmitter. Ended up carrying speech, tones, and music across roughly seven miles. Antenna placement and tuning did most of the work.
Build · Experimental
Hardware, fuel delivery, and ignition. A controlled flame tool built because a project actually needed one. Documented with care.
Electronics · RF · ESP32
An ESP32 paired with two NRF24L01 modules, built to understand how wireless interference actually behaves at the hardware level.
In the workshop
New builds usually land on YouTube before they land here. The propagation simulator is where most of my time goes right now.
See the channel →Running since day one
A 20-billion-parameter language model running entirely on my own machine. No cloud, no subscriptions, no third-party anything. DAVE has stopped being a project and turned into infrastructure, which is the best thing you can say about a build.
He's tuned to the way I work and gets used daily across everything: electronics, code, property admin, whatever's on the bench. Right now that mostly means propagation maths. My AI, not a product.
Capabilities
FM broadcast, 2.4GHz interference, antenna design. Strong interest in how defence-grade comms and electronic warfare systems work at the hardware level.
Terrain-aware path loss, link budgets, and 3D visualisation in the browser. Turning propagation maths into something you can look at and understand.
Designing and building wireless systems end to end, from module to protocol to range test. I know where they break and why.
Mechanical fabrication and modifications. Made to survive real use, not just look like it could.
Python, Lua, SQL, and the web stack. Clean, testable, maintainable, not clever for the sake of it.
200+ active client sites maintained, iterated, and tested for vulnerabilities. Deadlines hit, problems caught early.
Contact
A project, a collaboration, or something that doesn't fit a neat category. Reach out. I don't bite and I'm quick to reply.