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 the failure and lessons learned with the design and production of Lou1:d I didn't give up. And started working on Lou1:e. I decided to skip the extra column of switches to the left, my idea was that I could keep the wirings and add solder points for an external 5 row 1 column PCB if I wanted (spoiler: i didn't do it). Also I wanted to use more common key switches so I created a new footprint that allows for both MX and Choc v1 and v2 key switches. It also has a cutout for reverse mount RGB [...]

A couple of years ago I saw that a store sold Kobo eInk readers relativly cheap and a quick google showed that it was possible to root them and do what you wanted, so I bought one, and rooted it. Unfortunately there were no ready made scripts or programs to display weather information on the screen so I made my own. The first version At this time I used Domoticz to control lights and collect sensor data from my house so the solution was to write a python-script that would use the API from yr.no [...]

Somewhere late 2019 me and my friend discovered that the Makerspace here in Jönköping had laser cutter. Someone had lended it to the space for a indefinite time and we started to get in in order right away. Our goal was to cut parts for keyboards, we had both started looking into custom built mechanical keyboards and a laser cutter would be an awesome tool to have. The laser cutter in the back. Unfortunately we had quite mixed experience with the cutter, sometimes it would cut our material like [...]

One day at my work I got tired of having people mailing large attachments back and forth in complex email-chains. Unfortunately much of the information was quite sensitive and shouldn't leave our network or work computers (I know, email *doh*). Using dropbox was out of the question and when I looked for self-hosted alternatives I didn't find anything that was simple enough for me. So I made my own. I started by forking an existing project that handled uploads and built on that. The the result was [...]

Back in the olden days, before instagram, twitter and facebook was a thing I wanted a way to share photos from lanparties I and others attended. The start The first couple of versions was based on Menalto Gallery (now known as Gallery the Revival). It was a PHP based content management system for images. It supported multiple users, groups and a lot of things that was perfect for our new site. Screenshot from 2007-03-02 Thanks to the already established sister-site lana.nu and it's calendar of [...]

After having used the old dashboard a couple of events Telia contacted me if I could create a new one, and that I could. This time I got my friend from previous adventures on this blog, Mr Hannes. His master knowlege about design and UX combined with my backend expertese led us to a novel setup. Test setup at home Insted of only using one screen we wanted to give the dashboard more impact and show more stuff larger. After coming up with a couple of new ideas we finally went with splitting the [...]

The Telia Dashboard for Dreamhack started to feel a bit dated so Hannes and I started thinking of doing a new dashboard, but in a different way. We brainstormed all the possible metrics at DH that we could visualize, everything from traffic in the network to how many cans of soda had been sold and the distribution between sexes regarding shower-count. Since we din't have a lot of time we had to cut down on what data we were to collect, we ended up with seven (expanded to eight during the [...]

I did get the opportunity to play with data from the PacketLogic machines that was deployed at DreamHack summer 2011. Basically we parsed a log containing a subset of all connections, extracted the outside IP (independent from if it was source or destination) and ran that through MaxMinds GeoIP API to get lon/lat. The data was mangled a bit and then fed to a website with an WebGL globe that showed the amount of connections as bars on the globe. You can see the globe "in action" in this [...]

Just before DreamHack Summer 2011 Hannes "Hanes" Rahm and I sat down and talked about that it would be cool to actually submit something for the Wild-competition at DH which only was two weeks away. After a couple of hours brainstorm and research on Internet we had an idea, and Illusions is the result. This was the first Wild/Animation entry released at DreamHack by me and Hanes. Released under the group Zink-Interactive who by placing first both in 64-bit demo and combined demo previously [...]

I've attended all main Dreamhack events in some capacity (participant, crew, sponsor) since 1997. The first couple of years as a normal participant, starting in Borlänge and later in my home town Jönköping. When Dreamhack moved to Jönköping me and a friend got an idea of setting up webcams and streaming the buildup and event for everyone to see. This was well before Twitch or any other platform that made it easy to stream your own video so we had to invent most of it ourself, and use equipment we [...]