Projects

"A planned endeavour, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages."

Here I post completed and successful projects, things that took some time and effort. Things that make me proud or just slightly embarrassed. Some of these projects will be collaborations with other people but most of them will be solo projects.

After three [1, 2, 3] Ursa inspired keyboards it was time to try to do something different. For a while now I've seen several keyboards inspired by the original C64 design and colours, but I wasn't a Commodore guy, I had an Atari STe when I was a kid. The first ideas and sketches started to form properly around the start of the year, but it would take until the start of the summer before I had something to type on. I started with trying to get the characteristic F-buttons of the Atari ST to work. [...]

During this latest DreamHack event here in Jönköping (DHW23) I did some small updates to the Alertsquarer previously featured here. SG had bought some new hardware so instead of three 32x32 panels there was now two 64x32 panels. So while fixing support for this, and doing some minor adjustments I also added support for loading and displaying PNG-images. Like the DreamHack logo in this image. New Alertsquarer with PNG support You can find the code here: https://github.com/dhtech/alertsquarer [...]

A friend at En Produktions Byrå was assigned to design a section of a Fagerhult exhibit for their permanent showroom located at the headquarters. The display consists of several clusters of buttons, resembling vintage radio buttons where only one can be active at a time in each group. A sophisticated display mounted on an adjacent wall is controlled by the buttons. Modern radio buttons After doing some research, we purchased a number of Adafruit buttons with integrated Neopixel (WS281X) lights, [...]

After my second Ursa inspired keyboard was finished and I wasn't completely satisfied with the bulky look I decided to leave fabric and go back to a material I've worked with a bit more, wood. Also my newest PCBs had arrived a while back and I was eager to use them. I've also gotten some LOTR themed keycaps, more specifically the dwarvish set from Drop. So I started on the third iteration of the original design idea form Andreas Chlupka. Main body So I started with getting some oak planks and [...]

A friend who works at Dreamhack asked me if I had any 24 led Neopixel-rings in my large store of good-to-have stuff. Unfortunately I didn't, I could only find 12 led ones. In the crew area for the tech/network crew at Dreamhack in Jönköping they have had a display that show the number of active alerts per team. So anyone easily could see if any area had problems, or if everything was green. The display consisted of four 24-led Neopixel rings that either was green for no active alerts, or show [...]

After the immeasurable success with the first case and the fact that I have computers both at home and work, and can't be bothered to transport a keyboard back and forth I decided to create one more. Since I had more Lou1:e PCBs and just got a new keycap set it was a natural choice to just continue working on modifying Andreas Chlupkas original design. The final result I did like the look and feel of fabric on the keyboard but wanted it a bit more fluffy, and I wanted to colour match the the case [...]

How I built a self-organizing distributed network of IRC-bots for a good cause. The bot called Landlady is just the last one in a long line of bots written in Perl, Python and Javascript. Why did you create this IRC-bot? For a couple of years I was given the task to handle the #dreamhack IRC-channel on quakenet. Between events it was quite a quiet place but during the early 2000s it became the largest channel on Quakenet for the days during the event. The number of users in the channel naturally [...]

I've been looking for a CMS to create my new website in. I would like something that i could run locally and just "compile" to static html that could be rsynced to a remote server. My main reasoning behind this is that I can't be bothered to have a Wordpress site that needs attention, constant upgrading and poses a security threat in any way. For the last couple of years I've looked at Jekyll and Hyde and all reasonable alternatives available but non of them was to my liking. It they was all full [...]

After I've used my Lou1:e PCBs a while and I had some ideas for a PCB that was more suited for experimenting with crazy designs I started thinking about creating a new version. After talking to the user 4pplet on the Mechanical Keyboard Sweden discord I decided that STM32 had just what I wanted, a lot of extra IO pins and a somewhat beefy processor. I ended up using the STM32F072 since it requires very few external components, it even has a built-in oscillator. Version 1.0 of the PCB With all those [...]

After my failure with Lou:1c – my first keyboard and after the new PCBs arrived I started with a case to go with the PCB. Design inspiration I started designing several versions, and even halfway built some before I finally saw an image in a Discord channel. The image had no attribution but there was a name on the keyboard itself that pointed me towards Project Ursa, a project to create a keycap with "a deep dish spherical touch area with a flat top edge" by Andreas Chlupka. You can view more of [...]