Notes along the way.
A place for build logs, travel stories, and everyday life. Sometimes a few photos and a short note; sometimes the whole story of getting something to work.
I Don’t Need AI for That
Why I’m becoming more careful about which parts of thinking, learning, and creating I hand over to AI.
Building a robotic arm with Claude Code, FreeCAD, and Claude Vision
My first printed robotic arm: designing the parts in FreeCAD, getting four servos moving, and trying voice and camera control from a laptop.
Training and running a tiny CNN on an ESP32-S3
Collecting hand images from an OV7670, training a small model, and using predictions on the ESP32-S3 to control a brushless motor.
Bit-banging an OV7670 camera on the ESP32-S3
Writing a camera capture loop on the ESP32-S3 and getting a 160×120 grayscale image onto my laptop at about 5 FPS.
Building a battery-powered weather station for under €10
An ESP32-C3, AHT10, and OLED on battery power, with a touch input and some startup behaviour to work through.
How I deployed a personal website on Hetzner VPS
A step-by-step walkthrough of how I deployed my personal website, built with C and Lit HTML, on a virtual private server
How I built a web server in C from scratch
Implementation of the HTTP protocol in C: from basic web content serving to compression, security, and REST architecture