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 […]
Bahnhofs Steuerung 2000
Category: Software Engineering
Crossword Auto Solver
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 […]
Marshmallow Mystery
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 […]
Electronic Guitar
The idea for this project came from my younger sibling. When he was visiting me in Berlin during the summer of 2022, he talked about how it would be cool to have a guitar style midi input device with clear tactile feedback. He already tried […]
DOT BOT 2.0
This is not just a small update. Almost every part of the project got redesigned and many technologies changed. This is such a major leap forward that for me it feels like a new project altogether. After the update, the combined error was reduced from […]
Dot Bot
Story: Usually, the most interesting ideas form while brainstorming over a few beers. This is also true for the dot bot project. Although the original concept used to be the construction of a robot which uses spray cans to paint murals and was supposed to […]
Kalimba Playing Robot
2020 was quite the boring year. To ease things up a little, I bought myself a Kalimba from that online marketplace we all overused by a lot. Learning to play a new instrument is always a lot of fun, but as with every new hobby, […]
Convert images to sound and back
This was a fun little weekend project I developed sometime in September 2020. I played around with an Android App called Spectroid. Its only purpose is making sound visible as a spectrum over time. After analyzing quite some machines and drawing basic shapes while whistling, […]
Atondes
This project came to life during the first months of the first Covid19 lockdown. Everyone had to stay at home and so it happened that the organizers of the cultural hackathon Coding da Vinci moved everything into the internet. I read about it on Twitter […]
Hex Tex Mex
Late 2019, during a holiday, I wanted to create a simple hot seat local multiplayer board game in Unity. The idea was to combine some of my favorite games such as The Settlers, Settlers of Catan and Heroes of Might and Magic and merging some […]