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While sweeping the floor, I figured I should get a cleaning robot sometime soon. But after checking the options, I thought I could also build a simple cleaning robot myself. So the next project idea was born. But to not have another multi month long […]
Here is another one of my weekend projects I happened to work on way more than expected. The initial smaller goal was to upgrade the terrain generation for the HexTexMex project to have more variation in the map generation. First I started with some random […]
Some projects are never really finished. They rather evolve and improve over their lifespan. For the Dot Bot project, it was time to upgrade the drawing gondola. The old gondola was more like an improvised experiment and really had its downsides. The biggest issues were […]
Since I wrote the article about the Bahnhofssteuerung 2000, development has slowed down but never completely stopped. One aspect that in my opinion should always improve alongside a project are the tools that you use for development. Not only for better productivity, but also to […]
About a year ago, my dad asked me if I knew a way to control a bunch of tiny LEDs to light up his model railway buildings. At the time, I didn’t have an immediate solution, but I was up for the challenge. He had […]
Some time ago, I got myself new lamps for my workbench. Unfortunately and due to a mishap shortly after installing the lamps, one of the joints broke in half. Since the lamp was basically new, I just could not put the lamp in the trash […]
Some time ago, I saw a challenge online from the Luxembourgish newspaper RTL. They released a crossword every week, for years. Now their new challenge was to get all the results from the crosswords published to this date to win a nice price. The thing […]
Usually my projects are machines, functional parts such as tools and/or nice to have gimmicks, but only rarely for aesthetic reasons. Moreover, I then rarely find these projects interesting enough to write something about them, so most of them never get documented. But this one […]
For almost two years, I was part of the team that developed the Augmented Reality (AR) game called Marshmallow Mystery. It was the brainchild of the theater group GRIPS from Berlin Germany. Their kids program “Rakete jetzt!” imagined the story of a summer camp, where […]
I moved some time ago, and one of the moving gifts was an ice cream machine. It works by crushing frozen fruits into sorbet. Quite a lot of fun to be honest. But unfortunately, after only a few servings, we found a major weak point […]