PROJECT_010Web / Design / Writing
ACTIVE
This Website
Apparently the website needed a page about building the website. We're through the looking glass now.
lewiscleveland.uk · UPDATED 18.09.26Open project
FIELD SERVICE ENGINEERNORTH WEST OF ENGLAND
LEWIS CLEVELAND
Field service engineer, maker, coach and incurable thread-puller.
This is my digital workshop. The things I build, fix, learn, use, watch, coach, photograph and occasionally become completely obsessed with. Some of it is finished. Most of it isn't.
Fix things. Build things. Learn things. Preferably in that order. Occasionally not.
CURRENTLYUPD 18.09.26
- WORKField Service Engineer at Precor
- ON THE BENCHPure Eden Wellbeing, and this site
- LEARNINGCisco CCNA 200-301
- PLAYINGIce hockey, Riverside Raiders #95
- CURRENT RABBIT HOLEKnipex pliers, and subscription-free websites
01 / ON THE BENCH
All projects On the Bench
What is currently open, half-apart or refusing to behave.
PROJECT_009Field Service / Data / Operations
ACTIVE
Field Service Stock
There is no shortage of information in field service. Turning it into something a human can act on before the next job is the actual work.
UPDATED 18.09.26Open project
PROJECT_008Grassroots Sport / Software / Coaching
RESEARCHING
Netball Stats
Can grassroots netball have genuinely useful statistics without turning match day into a data-entry exercise?
UPDATED 18.09.26Open project
PROJECT_007Small Business / Web & Apps / Identity
BUILDING
Pure Eden
A second independent wellbeing business, and a proper test of what actually transfers between two projects in the same sector.
UPDATED 18.09.26Open project
02 / FEATURED
Featured Project
One project, pulled apart properly.
PROJECT_004PROTOTYPE
Field Service / Software / UX
What happens when a field engineer starts questioning the system around the job?
What happens when a field engineer starts questioning the system around the job? Working in field service gives you a very particular view of a business. You see the customer. You see the equipment. You see the parts. You see the paperwork. You see what…
03 / WEBSITES
Websites & Digital Projects
Somewhere along the way, building things stopped meaning only physical things.
I've started creating websites and digital tools for small businesses, clubs and people I know. I enjoy taking something that already has personality in the real world and making sure its website actually reflects it. No generic templates. No making every business look identical. Just figuring out what makes something different and building around that.
PROJECT_006Small Business / Web & Apps / UX
PROTOTYPE
The Wellness Room
Giving an independent wellness business a digital home with as much personality as the real thing.
PROJECT_007Small Business / Web & Apps / Identity
BUILDING
Pure Eden
A second independent wellbeing business, and a proper test of what actually transfers between two projects in the same sector.
PROJECT_001Grassroots Sport / Web / UX / Operations
ACTIVE
G&W Netball
What began as a better club website became a digital platform for running an entire netball club.
04 / FIELD NOTES
Field Notes
Things I've learned, things I'm learning, and things I may completely change my mind about later.
The Future We Were Promised
There is something about the 1950s that has always sung to me. Not the decade itself — their idea of the future, and the confidence that somebody would go and build it.
The Big Bang Theory: Curiosity, Engineering and the Comfort Show
Some shows you watch and forget. This one became part of the furniture, because it celebrates exactly the sort of people who need to understand things.
Guy Martin: Curiosity, Engineering & Getting Stuck In
Most people found Guy Martin through motorcycles. What's always fascinated me is his curiosity, and his habit of getting stuck in.
Websites With a Personality
Can small businesses escape the template, subscription and sameness trap? An experiment in websites that feel like the business and actually belong to it.
05 / FROM THE WORKSHOP
Open the workshop From the Workshop
Tools, technology and equipment, with an honest verdict against each.
CANONCamera Bodies
Canon EOS 6D Mark II
EOS 6D Mark II
WRITE-UP TO COME
- FORMAT
- Full-frame DSLR
- MOUNT
- Canon EF
DEWALTRatchets
DEWALT DCF512N-XJ 18V XR Brushless Open Head Ratchet
DCF512N-XJ
WRITE-UP TO COME
- PLATFORM
- 18V Li-Ion XR
- DRIVE
- 1/2″
- TYPE
- Brushless cordless open-head ratchet
06 / INFLUENCES
People, Machines & Ideas That Shaped Me
Nobody builds themselves from scratch.
Somewhere along the way you borrow a way of thinking from someone, become obsessed with a machine, watch somebody solve a problem differently, read a book at exactly the right time or discover something that sends your brain off in a completely new direction.
- FamilyThe Man Who Made Me Look UpThat an engineering career can be quiet, documented and enormous at the same time — and that the interesting questions run in families.
- PersonGuy Martin: Curiosity, Engineering & Getting Stuck InThat you can be genuinely obsessed with how something works without ever once needing to sound like an expert about it.
- TelevisionMythBusters: The Show That Taught Me to Ask “Why?”The habit of testing a claim instead of arguing about it, and the idea that a failed experiment is still a result.
- TelevisionThe Big Bang Theory: Curiosity, Engineering and the Comfort ShowThat enthusiasm is nothing to grow out of, and that the person who actually builds the hardware is doing something worth respecting.
- BookEvery Tool's a Hammer: The Book That Gave My Curiosity PermissionPermission. Start the thing, use the wrong tool if that's the tool you have, and stop waiting until you are qualified enough to begin.
- PersonNick Offerman: Making Things, Doing Things Properly, and the Value of Knowing HowThat knowing how to make something with your hands changes how you value everything else, and that slow is often the fast way.
07 / OFF THE CLOCK
OFF THE CLOCK
Two sports, one habit. Turn up, be useful, and then start quietly redesigning something nobody asked you to redesign.
Sport is where most of my volunteering, photography, design and club systems work ends up. It is also the only part of my life where somebody blows a whistle at me, which is probably good for me.
NETBALL
Netball
I started as a parent trying to help his daughter keep playing. I stayed because I fell in love with coaching.
08 / THE IDEA DRAWER
Open the drawer The Idea Drawer
Sketches and half-developed thoughts. Most will stay in the drawer.
IDEA_001THINKING
Service Autopilot
Field ServiceExploring how field service could require less administration and feel more natural.
CREATED 18.09.26LAST TOUCHED 18.09.26
RELATEDField Service App
IDEA_002THINKING
Engineer Assist
Field ServiceMaking useful information easier to reach while working in the field.
PROBLEMTechnical information is written to be read at a desk. You need it standing next to a machine, one-handed, on a gym floor, with a customer watching.
IDEAMake the information findable from where the work actually happens. Search that understands error codes and part numbers, answers short enough to read on a phone, and no forty-page PDF between you and the one paragraph you need.
WHAT HAPPENED NEXTStill a thought. It keeps coming back, which usually means something.
CREATED 18.09.26LAST TOUCHED 18.09.26
RELATEDField Service App
IDEA_003JUST AN IDEA
Equipment Digital Passport
Field ServiceBetter ways of connecting physical equipment with digital information.
CREATED 18.09.26LAST TOUCHED 18.09.26
RELATEDQR Verification Field Service App
THE WORKSHOP, BY THE NUMBERS
10PROJECTS ON THE BENCH
32ARTICLES WRITTEN
43TOOLS ON THE SHELVES
7MAKERS
23SLIPS IN THE DRAWER
37,000WORDS, ROUGHLY
COUNTED FROM THE CONTENTS OF THE SITE, NOT TYPED IN BY HAND
STEP 01
See something.
STEP 02
Understand it.
STEP 03