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Lights, camera… wait, is that a real system or a prop?
Welcome to mostlyAWESOME devLABS; the slightly unhinged, deeply obsessive, and suspiciously overengineered playground where movie props stop pretending and start performing!
We have built this for you!
While other productions are busy slapping green text on a black screen and calling it “hacking,” we took it personally. devLABS is our answer: a growing repository of custom-built software, physical mockups, and downright ridiculous devices designed to make on-screen tech feel real. Not “movie real.” Actually real.
Need a radar app that doesn’t just look cool but behaves like it could track something? Done.
A lab console that boots, glitches, logs, and reacts like it has secrets? Obviously.
A prop device that actors can actually use instead of aggressively tapping nonsense? We built that too.
Everything in devLABS is tailor-made – optimized for specific devices, scenes, and cinematic shots where authenticity matters.
Because nothing kills immersion faster than an actor confidently typing on a keyboard that isn’t even plugged in.
And yes, we know. It’s overkill…
That’s kind of the point!
So if you’ve ever paused a movie just to cringe at a fake UI… relax. We’re fixing that. One absurdly detailed prop at a time.
mostlyAWESOME devLABS — because “good enough for the audience” was never good enough for us.
I’m off for the week // Edit:
I’m not feeling quite well, I’m still going to find a way to update what’s been left on my table though. For work related stuff, feel free to message me!
And I’m back in business!
LTC Timecode on no budget? No problem…
Anyone who’s worked a real production set knows the feeling. You’ve got a camera rolling, a boom op sweating, a director losing their mind, and somewhere in the chaos, audio and picture are slowly drifting apart.
The fix? Timecode. The problem? A decent LTC generator will cost you more than your entire craft services budget.
Traditional timecode hardware is priced like it’s 1987 and the only people buying it are broadcast networks with bottomless expense accounts. For indie filmmakers, doc crews, guerrilla productions, or anyone working under an executive producer with a particular talent for slashing budgets — that gear might as well live on the moon.
“What if the timecode generator was already in your pocket?”
That’s the question we kept asking ourselves. And after a lot of late nights and probably too much coffee, we have an answer: it is.
We built an Android app that turns two smartphones and a 5GHz Wi-Fi connection into a fully functional timecode sync system; one device generates, one device receives, and LTC gets jammed to your audio line.
That’s it. That’s the whole rig.
The app is a single install that can act as either the master generator or the slave receiver, no second separate app to manage, no complicated pairing rituals, no subscriptions.
Both devices share a common 5GHz network, sync up, and timecode starts flowing. From there you can feed LTC directly into your audio recorder or mixer’s line input and treat it exactly like any hardware generator you’d have rented for three times your day rate.
Right now the app supports 24fps, 25fps, and 29.97/30fps — covering the most common frame rates you’ll run into on film, narrative, and broadcast work. It’s a working prototype, which means it does the job and does it reliably, and it also means we’re actively building on top of it. More frame rates, better UI, tighter sync tolerance — it’s all on the roadmap.
We’re not trying to replace a high-end sync box for a Netflix production. We’re trying to make sure the crew shooting their feature on weekends, the doc team chasing a story with whatever’s in the van, or the commercial unit that just had half their gear budget pulled — all of them can still roll with proper timecode. Because good sync shouldn’t be a privilege reserved for people with deep pockets.
Patience is one way to deal with drift in post. A timecode generator is another. Now you’ve got no excuse.
Want to try it? -> Click here
Edit: We’re about to shoot a little demo on how it works. Please be patient for maybe a couple of days
The show must go on…
so let’s detect what’s up! We’re still talking about our cybersecurity centric dramedy series “Hi, I’m Bob!“. And we’re still releasing pieces of software to make you, the audience understand a little better how the technical side of the whole story works.
Our next tool is the DeAuth//Detector, it’s a network surveilance tool for Android, and it’s only purpose is to detect deauthentification attacks, and of course it shows you further intel on the attacker, and optional countermeasures.
The alpha version of the app is available right now! And the best part is, it’s free!
Download it now: click here
A prop has become reality
We’re in the middle of shooting our brand new webseries “Hi, I’m Bob.” and thus we had to create a sheer plethora of devices and software mockups, to conceal how things might work in reality, kinda as a security measure. Quite an exhausting task, but the results still didn’t satisfy me, I just had to come up with more…
And this lead to creating BLESP v3 in short, and “Bluetooth Low Energy Spy”, basically an iot surveilance and radar app. It also shows when credit card skimmers are near, those are contraptions made to look like a real ATM keyboard and card slot, and also made to steal your credit card info. Those devices connect via BT to the hacker’s computer more often than not, and our app finds them.
But we’re not quite done here, we also added a cellular surveilance option to find cell towers surrounding you, but also via db connection -> it detects stingray operations! This means it shows you if police is near with a specific device to mimic a cell tower, make you connect your phone to it automatically, and shut down your encryption to listen to your calls, and of course, to read your messages.
This and a huge list of BLE exploits, like fast pair vulnerabilities for example are included. But the most intriguing part is: you can set a movement alarm to a specific device to get notified if the device is moving. This makes everyone with a phone in their pocket prone to this kinda tracking method, and also everyone with bluetooth headphones, tablets, even connected smart devices like a vape, all are trackable.
I guess this is a little more than regular movie magic, and the best part is, you can download and try a demo version of the app right here, right now.
Side note: You need an Android 7+ capable smartphone to use the app, we’re not going to release an iOS version of the app, thanks to Apple Appstore restrictions.
(It still has bugs though, don’t expect a polished product yet)
Enjoy it!
Collecting sounds!
We spent the last few days out and about with various multitrack recorders and a director’s viewfinder, sampling the right sounds for our film.
It was a crazy amount of work in the cold and deep snow, but we pulled it off.
The recordings are in the can now and will soon be put to their final use, as FX for several scenes we’ll shoot in front of a bluescreen and then fill out visually in UE5, and audibly with those FX recordings as well.
And just as a side note, it was damn creepy in some of the places!
You found a monkey? – Let’s take a look…
“Fine, but what is this all about? Why am I here and what is happening? “ – That’s kind of what you’re about to say, right?
Give me a second, and I’ll explain the monkey business right away…
You’ve been walking down the street, until you found one of those stickers, and I guess you tried to get the free stuff by scanning the QR-code, which brought you here, and afterwards to this message here, right?
As you already might have noticed, you’ve been promised the world if you just click, but you didn’t get anything in exchange! You only had to watch a stupid video with monkeys. Well, I’m here to change that!
I’m a professional photographer, as you can see here, and thus…
2 professional portraits + retouching * – 100% free of charge!
* Technical details: [ 2 prints in 148 x 100 mm + digital photos as TIFF. ]
And in detail: We make those portraits right at your place or any other location you might prefer. I will pop up with my assistant, and soon you’ll be in posession of some of the best portraits out there!
You can use them for social media for example, as super high quality profile pictures.
Or: – and you need to ask me before I’m on my way to you – you can get a set of professional portraits with a white backdrop and professional retouching for example (the kind you need for passports), all done on location and in under an hour.
How do I claim the prize?
So you found one, and want to claim your portraits? Just send me a message via Whatsapp, with your name and location, and we’ll figure something out!
Good luck everyone, and for those who already got lucky – Ooh ooh ah ah!
Edit: This was awesome, but we’re done now, at least in Germany. Next we’ll be monkeying around in the Netherlands!
New structures, and old stuff…
We’ve moved the news archive to a new structure that’s easier for readers to navigate – so far, so good!
However, we had to start almost from scratch to ensure the news page looks clean and organized. The “old” news can be found right here, and this link will remain available permanently until we find a better way to migrate the older posts.
Thank you for your patience, and I hope you continue to enjoy exploring my work!
This is the link: Click here to enter the news archive
Clash of whatever
Original post: [ Posted on October 4th 2025 by Édgar ]
Urban Warfare – that’s the title, even though it doesn’t really refer to a conventional war. It’s about the clash of cultures that has been waged for decades with increasing brutality and determination. Originally, the series consisted of just two images I created for someone in Mexico; they’re now framed and hanging in an office. However, the subject felt too important to let it gather dust, so I went on to translate other pivotal incidents into visual form.
You can take a look yourself: click here
