01Nov 2021

The IN-9 Nixie Clock

A 60 Nixie tubes contraption that I postponed for 5 years...

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15Oct 2018

Radiation Pattern Measurements in an RF Anechoic Chamber

Very few are lucky enough to use such a piece of equipment... so I figured I'd share this experience with you!

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23Jul 2017

Project In A Day: When Is My Next Bus?

Made using only components from my stock !

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22Feb 2017

Making the Electronics for a 24GHz Doppler Motion Sensor

I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw how tiny that sensor is !

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13Jan 2017

A Mass Programming Bench for ATMega32u4 MCUs

Or how to try to spend as little time as possible programming several thousands MCUs....

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17Apr 2016

A Small Collection of NodeMCU Lua Scripts

I usually never use libraries... but made an exception for these quick projects !

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02Apr 2016

High Voltage Power Supply for Nixie Tubes

It's always fun playing with dangerous voltages !

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23Nov 2015

An Open CVMeter

Did you know that most ceramic capacitors lose up to 80% of their capacitance near their voltage ratings?

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29Aug 2015

A Connected Lamp to Wake Me Up

I've always wanted to play with these 10W RGB LEDs!

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22Jun 2015

A Timeless Fountain

This is one of these "just because" projects...

Timeless Fountain

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13Apr 2015

A Personal Perspective on Managing an Open HW Project - Part 2

$120k and a year after my previous article, you might be interested to know what happened behind the scenes...

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11Jan 2015

Trying to Make a Tiny NFC Reader with a TRF7970A

Want a free board? Read below!

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06Dec 2014

First Steps with the ESP8266-03 Development Board

A fun afternoon project with two platforms...

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27Nov 2014

A Development Board for the ESP8266-03

A Wifi platform for $3... who wouldn't want to play with it?

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07Oct 2014

Using a Standard Coil for NFC Tag Implant Reading

Who knew it'd be possible to use this coil to read NFC tags?

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04Aug 2014

Video Series - Touring Electronics Markets in Shenzhen

What's the point in going to Shenzhen if it's not to visit the electronics markets?

Electronics market

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30Jul 2014

Video Series - Touring Factories in Shenzhen

During the month of July I was visiting Beijing and had an extra 10 days to spare. What to do? Well it took me less than a few minutes to decide to go the wonderful city that is Shenzhen...

Shenzhen Assembly Line

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15Jun 2014

My Business Card v2

At the end of this month, I'll be leaving my current job. I therefore thought it'd be a nice occasion to build a new business card for my future interviews:

Business card v2

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24Apr 2014

Easy-phi Project: High Speed Logic Gate

Next in our Easy-Phi articles series is the High Speed Logic Gate board:

Logic gate board

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30Mar 2014

A Personal Perspective on Managing an Open Hardware Project

I'm sure you must have noticed by now that during these last months I didn't put many projects on this blog. This is mainly because I'm currently working on the Mooltipass project, an offline password keeper idea I launched last december.
I've written articles on Hackaday about the technical aspects of this project, but none about my personal experience managing a team of contributors from all over the globe. I feel it's something that only has its place on my blog, so here we go...

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