Collection 03 / 13 projects

Scribbles & Doodles

A changing shelf of useful tools, local helpers, private browser utilities, and experiments that became interesting enough to share.

Projects

Larger ideas collected here, each with its own purpose and visual character.

Family-created game

Hello Mr Magpie

Fly around South Shields, greet the neighbours and turn seaside mishaps into good luck. A family-created 3D game for desktop and mobile.

Play Hello Mr Magpie

Sourced archive

Shrunk

Explore a visual record of British shrinkflation, comparing the old size and price of familiar products with what they cost today.

Explore Shrunk

Private finance

FiScanner

Import a bank export in your browser to explore cashflow, bills, spending patterns, and transactions worth checking.

Open FiScanner

Offline analyser

Bank Statement Secure Analyser

Review exported statement files locally, spot patterns, and create rough estimates without sending your financial data away.

Open analyser

Utilities, planners & experiments

Quick answers, local travel checks, browser experiments, and small interfaces built around a specific job.

UK fuel

Live Petrol Stations

Compare reported fuel prices near your location or a UK postcode.

Check fuel

Rail travel

Commute Helper

A rough but handy board for checking regular rail journeys without opening several transport pages.

Open commute

Local travel

Is The Metro On

Fast Metro status and departure checks for when the only question is whether the next journey is actually happening.

Check Metro

Location tool

Find My Nearest

Use phone location and compass direction to point towards the nearest useful place without a heavy map flow.

Find nearest

Quick utility

Scoreboard

A lightweight scoreboard experiment for quickly tracking a simple head-to-head or group score.

Open scoreboard

3D experiment

3D Body Scan

A model viewer test with browser lighting, scale, and turntable controls for inspecting a scan in place.

View scan

3D experiment

3D Body Animation

An animated model viewer with selectable motion controls and enough structure to test browser-based movement.

View animation

Planning tool

Uni Application Planner

Open days, UCAS deadlines, admissions tests, and private context prompts gathered into one calmer planning view.

Open planner

In-car launcher

TaHinny Car

A Tesla-friendly media launcher for Plex, UK streaming, music, live sport, route tools, and saved in-car links.

Open car screen