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The Louie

"I create stuff."

Welcome to my blog where I mostly post things I've done over the years. Hopefully this will be a somewhat living archive of my adventures as a amateur maker and creator of mostly useless stuff.

Keyboard PCB prototypes

  • Post date 2021-11-13
  • Categories Random

While designing my own PCB I created some prototypes. To test my designs and the capabilities of JLCPCB. I wanted to test the newly created footprints, colours and silk-screen prints among other things. So here are a small gallery of those prototypes.

Candy in vacuum

  • Post date 2021-06-21
  • Categories Random

I got a small vacuum pump to use with my projects using resin, and ofcourse me and the kids first task was to test to put different kinds of candy in it.

Lou1:d – Almost my second keyboard

  • Post date 2021-04-10
  • Categories Experiments

After trying hand-wiring i decided that I wanted to try to make a custom PCB. This would be the first that was a bit more advanced, with a MCU and USB. I also wanted a PCB for the vintage SMK switches I just bought from Ebay. I used EasyEDA to design it since i would […]

Lou:1c – my first keyboard

  • Post date 2020-11-29
  • Categories Projects

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 […]

Timelapse

  • Post date 2020-08-29
  • Categories Random

For many years I’ve enjoyed creating timelapses. The earliest i still have is from Dreamhack 2002. Since then there I’ve takes a lot more timelapses, mainly sunsets and stars. The 2002 Dreamhack one used my parents old VHS camcorder as a video device connected to an old dual pentium 200. After that I’ve used my […]

CNC engraving

  • Post date 2020-05-24
  • Categories Experiments

During the first months of the Pandemic I bought a small tabletop CNC machine from Switzerland (read: China). It has a working area of 60x40cm and work very well for wood and other softer materials. I’ve added some things to it, a vacuum-shoe for example. I’ve used it to make several prototypes of keyboard cases […]

JPEG distort

  • Post date 2018-11-03
  • Categories Experiments

A small experiment with distorting jpeg-images with Javascript in the browser. You can test it here: https://louie.se/dumpster/misc/jpeg-distort/And find the code here: https://github.com/the-louie/jpeg-distort Mostly simple pixel manipulation, like scrolling and skewing, but also a function to introduce random byte-errors in the compressed jpeg-data itself to get some unpredictable but nice effects.

Simple file sharer

  • Post date 2016-04-16
  • Categories Projects

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 […]

Lanbilder

  • Post date 2016-03-27
  • Categories Projects

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 […]

Creatures in the dark

  • Post date 2016-02-05
  • Categories Random

I have a FLIR ONE infrared camera that attaches to my phone. When I just got it I took it for a test and went out in the pitch black forest behind the house. And I was not alone.

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