My name is William Mulreed, but I go by Wil, I’m a hobbyist interested in engineering and aerospace (hence why I go by SomeSpaceNerd online). I commonly work on projects that involve electrical engineering such as custom PCBs, software development in languages like Python, C, C++, and C#, as well as mechanical engineering including CAD/CAM work and fabrication techniques like 3D printing and laser cutting. I’m also interested in Virtual Reality (especially VR hardware) but I don’t really make anything related to that myself due to the complexity and cost, I am a pretty good Beat Saber player though.
I mostly just make whatever ideas come to my mind, with no real pattern or reason (or schedule). However I do not take any kind of commissions or unsolicited project ideas. All of my work is hobbyist-level, and not to be considered professional or particularly “production ready as I have no formal engineering training (but enough real-world experience to a similar effect).
About this website
This website serves as a centralized location to document my projects, their development history, and other information. This domain is also host to other services and tools (like my links site, links.somespacenerd.dev) and will probably be used to host any web-based projects I make in the future.
Branding, Logos, and Graphics
I would like to preface this section by saying that I am not, by any means, a graphic designer or artist. Because of that, all of my logos and branding are typically very simple and comprised of only a few shapes. I know that designs like this have been made by many other people before me, but I like to consider the way I make my logos and graphics to be “my” design language. This type of design, as a result of being so simplistic, makes it very suitable for many different mediums, including the obvious ones like online as well as more limited mediums like PCBs, laser engraving/cutting, 3D printing, and other places where color and/or high detail isn’t really possible. Below you’ll find some examples of this.
Please note that all of the following logos and images are copyrighted and may not be used for any purpose, except representing me and my work, without explicit written permission from me.
Logo 1 “Yin Yang”
This is the first real logo I made for myself around May of 2025. It’s inspired by the famous Yin Yang symbol and takes advantage of the fact that my first and last initials are basically the same shape but flipped (W M). I don’t really use this logo much anymore, but it may be found on early stage prototypes (but I would probably never publish images of those anyways). It has been largely replaced by Logo 2.
Logo 2 “Eclipse” / “Vesica Piscis”
This logo is very similar to the first one, keeping the same stacked W / M and inverted black/white coloring. This logo was originally meant to look like a solar eclipse to represent both my real name and username, but it also looks like a vesica piscis (a shape created by overlapping 2 circles of the same diameter where the edge of one circle is on the middle of the other), so it is also sometimes referred to as such. This is the main logo I use for basically everything as of right now. It was made specifically to look good as a round logo (like for profile pictures) so while it does technically have a square version, it’s almost never used.
Monogram 1
This logo is quite different from the ones mentioned previously because it both doesn’t represent my real name and technically isn’t the same kind of logo. This logo/monogram is comprised of the letters “SSN” (short for SomeSpaceNerd), with the second S being backwards, combined together to create a single line/shape. This was inspired by the NASA Worm logo but it was mainly just created because the other logos could be confusing online as they don’t really represent my online username in any obvious way.
Fonts/Typography
The fonts I mainly use are Manrope for most text (including this website) and Audiowide for logos and monograms (though Logo 1 and 2 use Arial because it fit better). I chose Manrope for general text because I felt like it was a good balance between simplicity, readability (especially on things like PCBs or in small font sizes), and style. I chose Audiowide for logos because it looks futuristic and fits with my overall aesthetic quite well. I also chose it specifically because it is a blocky and consistent font, making the process of working with it to create monograms or logos much easier (especially because I am not an artist).