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Can you believe someone wrote this?

Actual Engineering

I just discovered this file, and what it appears to be a wish-list for my winter semester. Really a nice time-capsule of what was 4 months ago (that’s 2025 for the historians out there). Not all of it was done, as I had other plans along the semester. Some I wish I cared more for, some I don’t really miss.

DONE Learn something during your internship

My internship was about writing firmware for a machine monitoring system. It’s a bit funny how I’m doing what what amazon has 5 full time engineers working on. We’re doing pretty much the exact thing here, machine learning and all. Am I better? Definitely man. I’m doing this out of spite bro.

DONE MakerSpaceRepo

Simple part time really

Make a synthesizer

  • MFOS Noise Toaster
  • MFOS Controller

  • Various mods for the noise toaster

    Now i did start the noise toaster, I just haven’t had the damn time to laser cut the enclosure. It’s a bit like putting together a kit, my only concern is that the parts I picked aren’t completely suitable for an audio signal path.

Hardware music tracker

https://modarchive.org/ Only the instruments in hardware, control with a microprocessor. Impulse into a drum machine???

MAYBE? Play my guitar more often

Learn to read music sheets maybe

SSTV encoder/transmission/decoder

Fix the oscilloscope

Probe around, because it doesn’t even light up. Maybe find the schematic online? You really need your own multimeter for this dude

Make a helmet

Actual helmet

The files are inside a folder on desktop, just cut the paper then later see if EVA foam is an option. Roto-casting with resin might work, then wall putty for filler, but time consuming. EVA foam could be cheaper really

Support LEDs

Just any attiny driving the leds with a 9V battery

Hypno-goggles are easier maybe as a starter

Glue LEDs to a 3D printed frame

DONE Write more on the website

Update the scripts and make it more structured. Well I sure did. Switched over to emacs, just feels more natural to me. I’ll make a point of mentioning emacs in every single post from now on…

Learn a language

The book is there and you have a lot of time

Learn FPGAs

The books is also there. Just stick to simulations tbh. You don’t need a physical FPGA. See if you can steal one from around the workshops.

DONE Be as active as you can in winter

Go to the gym twice a week at least

Dust off X-COM clone

It’s C#, make it as easy as you could. Brute force algorithms if needed, no one cared about algorithm efficiency dude it’s just a janky prototype.

DONE Try out new resume

I love LaTeX, it is so easy to specify your layout. Rewrote resume in latex, and it looks so much cleaner now. I have a whole setup to automate changes quickly.

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