An Applied Physics student with a passion for programming!

I have always enjoyed programming as a hobby, and would love to make it my career. Since then I have also combined this hobby with the hardware side of things. Most recently I have picked up Rust, and have fallen in love with this programming language.

I'm also quite experienced with Linux as I have been daily driving it for the past decade at this point. Making me very familiar with the terminal and the different command line tools available. And have even been running my own Linux server at home for quite some time now!

The first big hardware project that I worked on was building a computer, from the ground up, around the Z80 microprocessor. I had to learn a wide range of skills for this project, including things like learning how to design PCBs, programming in assembly, working with FPGAs, and learning to operate an oscilloscope.

My Peugeot 207 only has bluetooth for calling, so I decided it would be fun to build my own bluetooth receiver using the ESP32 microcontroller. The original goal was to just build an audio receiver and hook it up to the aux port in my glovebox. However since then I have also connected the ESP32 to the CAN bus of my car, allowing me to use the controls on my steering wheel to control the music.

I have slowly been converting my house into my very own smart home! It all started with a couple of Philips Hue light bulbs. The Hue app allows for some level of automation but it wasn't quite doing what I wanted. So initially I wrote a very simple program in Go to add my own automations. As I added more smart devices to my house, the program grew massively in scope with things quickly getting hacked in just to make it work. Eventually I decided to rewrite the whole thing in Rust! This was my first real Rust after picking up the language during Advent of Code and was (and still is) a great learning experience.

This is my most recent project, as I had recently decided to pick up a Raspberry Pi Pico W just to play around with. I decided to build a device to read out my DSMR5 based smart meter using it's P1 port and publish the information using MQTT. The main intention of this project is to learn about Rust for embedded devices, which is still a very new ecosystem. So far it has been quite a nice experience!

As I got more into developing hardware my collection of electronic components also grew and I needed a better way of organizing everything. I decided that it was a great opertunity to learn React and to develop the frontend of my very own simple inventory management system. The system uses QR codes to link the physical components to their representation in the mangement system, which contains more information on the specific component like for example datasheets. It also stores where each of the components is supposed to be stored, which makes it very easy to find components in the future.