The Attic
Professional engineering being my occupational hazard, I always have a side project cooking. It seems sad to just let them fade away into the distance. So I recently decided to keep some notes about what I do or did, when I can remember, accompanied by some thoughts and learnings.
This is the attic, where I keep dusty things.
Eink wireless Do Not Disturb sign
completedA wireless e-ink do-not-disturb sign connected to my MacBook, using a T5 e-paper ESP32 module and a macOS menu bar app.
Museum Indoor VPS
ongoingA web-based indoor positioning and orientation system from smartphone camera.
Open JJ
ongoingA VSCode extension to visually manage JJ (Jujutsu) version control projects.
Zenstack, TRPC and Kit
ongoingContributing to the Zenstack open source project with zenstack-trpc and zenstack-kit library proposals.
Adventures in Reinforcement Learning
completedA couple of projects around reinforcement learning in simulated environments
Paris History Panels
completedSmall experiment to navigate heritage panels of Paris and build customized tours.
Article Audio Player
pausedExperiments on creating an *audio markup* in text to speech
Scratch Machine
pausedA hardware tool to control Mixxx with MIDI to scratch like on a turntable.
GPT Intercom
conceptA concept for a LLM based intercom - the Mad Men era desk communication device.
Origan
ongoingA serverless Netlify/Vercel-like platform based on V8 isolates, running on European sovereign infrastructure.
Grigri story player
completed / abandonedAn ambitious, hardware and software project to build an open source children music and story player. Inspired by Lunii.
Notable For Boox
passed overAn open source app for stylus-based note taking on the Boox e-reader family of products.
Where Stuff At
pocAn email scanner to centralize parcel delivery information, pickup dates and locations.
Lunii Admin Web
completedAdmin interface for sideloading custom stories on Lunii children player device.
Radio HN - The Five
completedAn AI-generated daily radio broadcast from the top 5 Hacker News posts. Long before NotebookLM.
E-paper camera
abandonedA slow-tech toy camera for kids using an ESP32 camera module and a T5 e-paper display.
Serverless Esbuild
completedIndividual packaging optimization for the serverless framework esbuild plugin.
KoboWriter
completedA software to turn a Kobo e-reader into an e-ink typewriter. Hacker News loved it.
The Reel & Fragments
A series of note taking tools based on a single thread of notes, like a chat with oneself.
Synonyms
A fun project to build a static json api to lookup synonyms.
750W
Simple front side implementation of the 750 word writing method - write 750 words to be able to save.