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  • POTS and the VS1053 Audio board for speech synthesis

    Knowing I like old pieces of engineering, my family gifted me a fully functioning old rotary phone, identical to the one we had at our home growing up (for many years). It is a Siemens-Halske model built in Argentina probably in the early 1970’s.

  • The life progress bar

    A new year starts, and although arbitrary, because every day, every second, every instant a new year starts, it is only on rare occasions we get to celebrate alltogether.

  • Controling a Tesla car with SMS

    Someone I know got a Tesla some time ago, an amazing car. I can’t think of anything geekier. What can be geekier than a car that ships with auto-updates and … an API! (albeit unofficial, more below).

  • Building Katie. Our first real steam engine

    For a long time I wanted to build a steam engine. I’ve always been fascinated by trains in general, and steam engines in particular.

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