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

completed

A 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

ongoing

A web-based indoor positioning and orientation system from smartphone camera.

Open JJ

ongoing

A VSCode extension to visually manage JJ (Jujutsu) version control projects.

Zenstack, TRPC and Kit

ongoing

Contributing to the Zenstack open source project with zenstack-trpc and zenstack-kit library proposals.

Adventures in Reinforcement Learning

completed

A couple of projects around reinforcement learning in simulated environments

Paris History Panels

completed

Small experiment to navigate heritage panels of Paris and build customized tours.

Article Audio Player

paused

Experiments on creating an *audio markup* in text to speech

Scratch Machine

paused

A hardware tool to control Mixxx with MIDI to scratch like on a turntable.

GPT Intercom

concept

A concept for a LLM based intercom - the Mad Men era desk communication device.

Origan

ongoing

A serverless Netlify/Vercel-like platform based on V8 isolates, running on European sovereign infrastructure.

Grigri story player

completed / abandoned

An ambitious, hardware and software project to build an open source children music and story player. Inspired by Lunii.

Notable For Boox

passed over

An open source app for stylus-based note taking on the Boox e-reader family of products.

Where Stuff At

poc

An email scanner to centralize parcel delivery information, pickup dates and locations.

Lunii Admin Web

completed

Admin interface for sideloading custom stories on Lunii children player device.

Radio HN - The Five

completed

An AI-generated daily radio broadcast from the top 5 Hacker News posts. Long before NotebookLM.

E-paper camera

abandoned

A slow-tech toy camera for kids using an ESP32 camera module and a T5 e-paper display.

Serverless Esbuild

completed

Individual packaging optimization for the serverless framework esbuild plugin.

KoboWriter

completed

A 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.