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I started Xtal Projects & Designs in 2019 with a simple idea: that technology should work for you, not against you. As an autistic, disability-owned small business, I came at problems from a different angle — unhurried, plain-spoken, and genuinely curious about what would actually make your day easier.

Over the years that meant setting up smart TVs and home Wi-Fi, coaxing laptops back to life, rescuing photographs from shoeboxes and ageing hard drives, and building websites for small local businesses. Mostly it meant sitting at kitchen tables and in home offices across North Brisbane and Moreton Bay, listening first. Occasionally the job came with a bonus: a hello from my wife Jamie, and a visit from Arnie the sausage dog, who supervised.

It also meant the BeConnected sessions — where someone who had been told technology wasn't for them finally felt confident enough to try something new. Those afternoons were the best part of the job.

To every customer who trusted me: thank you. You were never a ticket number.

A small business doesn't grow from advertising. It grows because someone tells their neighbour you did a good job. That is the only marketing I ever really had, and it came from you. Thank you for the referrals, the patience, the cups of tea, and the conversations that ran longer than the job did.

This site is no longer monitored, and I am not taking on new work. It stays here simply to say thank you, and to leave a record of what Xtal was.

Still need a hand? I recommend Wayne at All Install for TV antennas, data cabling and home theatre — 0414 465 122 · allinstall.com.au