I'm George, born and raised in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. I've been passionate about making things for as long as I can remember.
Growing up with an engineer father, I spent a lot of my childhood helping with projects, pulling things apart, figuring out how they worked and learning how to build things for myself. I've always been hands-on, and I love the challenge of creating something cool, useful, or just a bit different.
Beyond Geometry started from that love of making things.
I bought my first 3D printer, a Creality Ender 3, in 2019 after my twin brother got one and started sending me videos of what he was making. It didn't take much convincing. Two weeks later I had one of my own, and I haven't really stopped since. What started as a hobby turned into years of designing, printing, modifying and learning, eventually upgrading to a couple of larger Elegoo printers.
In April 2025, I decided to try woodworking after watching far too many YouTube videos and thinking, "I need to try that." I bought some oak strips, threw myself in the deep end and made my first cutting boards. Since then I've experimented with timber slabs, river boards, veneers and plenty of other projects along the way.
For a long time, all of this happened in an old paddock shed on my parents' property. The roof leaked, it wasn't lined, it would occasionaly flood and it was always a mess — but it was mine.
I've since upgraded to my own little single-car garage. This one doesn't leak, but it's still just as rough and messy. It's nothing fancy, but it's my workshop, and it's where I can build whatever I want.
About ME
Aviation
I've been interested in aviation and flying for as long as I can remember. Straight out of high school I went into flight training, completing a two-year diploma and earning my commercial pilot licence along with a number of other licences and endorsements.
That led to my first flying job as a skydive pilot in Taupō, where I spent three years flying jump aircraft. These days my day job still keeps me in aviation, just in a slightly different way — working as an agricultural drone operator.
So when my interests in aviation and making things eventually crossed over, Flight Station happened.
Flight Station started after I came across Tiny Desk Radar and thought, "I could build that."
It began as something I wanted to build for myself and a few friends, but it quickly grew into something much bigger — and quite different from where it started.
I began experimenting with the design, adding a second display, developing my own interface and features, and creating a completely different physical style around it. Before long, it had become Flight Station — a desktop aviation display combining live aircraft tracking, weather, custom electronics, 3D printing, PCB design and software, all wrapped up in its own unique look and feel.
What started as a project for myself and a few mates has gone through months of prototypes, redesigns, testing, mistakes and improvements. Then other people started asking if they could get one too.
Now, somehow, I'm getting ready to build and ship Flight Stations to people I've never even met.
It's easily become the biggest project I've taken on through Beyond Geometry — and I'm definitely not finished yet.
Beyond Geometry is still really about the same thing it was when I started:
Having an idea, figuring out how to make it, and seeing where it goes.