The Louie

The Louie

The Louie

The Louie

"I create stuff."

After I received my new PCBs I wanted to get a feel for them and start using them as fast as possible. So I grabbed a 22mm thick sheet of MDF from the stack and started cutting in to it. For the tray to have a bit more strength I soaked it was watered down wood glue a couple of times before I painted it black. The result wasn't amazing, or above average. But it at least let me start using my new nice pcb and keycaps while I created the first proper case. [...]

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 [...]

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. The first, mainly footprint test The 2nd & 3rd, more footprints The 4th, different sized holes The fifth, more footprints, RGB and misc shenanigans [...]

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. https://youtu.be/jGdmLLrSNV8 https://youtube.com/shorts/ObA4UA7Tq50?feature=share https://youtu.be/4kXskGUJrmk https://youtu.be/fhccxxpRgLM https://youtube.com/shorts/4K-97uQMPw0?feature=share https://youtube.com/shorts/zyk3E-ICmgw?feature=share [...]

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. SMK gen2 switches I used EasyEDA to design it since i would be ordering from JLCPCB and there is a nice integration between EasyEDA and JLCPCB which made the ordering a lot easier. Screenshot from EasyEDA, v1.5 of the PCB I created my own footprint for the key switches and [...]

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 [...]

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. https://www.youtube.com/embed/4PJjDDDmT3s Dreamhack 2002 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 Canon EOS 40D with a adapter to use power from the wall instead of battery. Now I mainly use my Canon EOS 5D with Magic Lantern or [...]

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 in wood. I've used oak, birch, pinewood, MDF and plywood. It's fun to design something in the computer and a short while later have it as a physical object. One idea I explored was to [...]

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. [...]