Building a simple 6 kV DC power supply
9 mins
Short summary on how to build a small 6 kV power supply using an 2.1 kV microwave oven transformer, two of the accompanying capacitors and a bunch of diodes that is capable of delivering a little bit more than half a kilowatt of power
A simple OpAmp photodiode readout circuit
15 mins
A short summary on the workings of photodiodes, how one can interface them to simple electronics and a simple amplifier circuit
Controlling Pfeiffer Turbopumps using RS485
25 mins
Pfeiffer makes great turbopumps but sometimes you want to log information or control them from an existing control system. Out of this desire I played around with the RS485 protocol used by Pfeiffer and wrote some simple unofficial tools - that's what this blog entry is about
Why one should use version control like GIT or SVN for nearly everything
9 mins
This is an opinion article on why I think one should use version control systems such as git or SVN for everything including writing tasks for thesis, books or articles as well as websites and other stuff in addition to software development.
How to create your own Python packages
8 mins
A mini introduction and summary on how to create own Python PyPi (pip) packages
The AD7705 dual channel analog digital converter with AVRs
17 mins
Mini summary on how to use the AD7705 with Atmel AVRs
Why I think that Jabber/XMPP is one of the best chat system available
18 mins
Some thoughts why in my opinion Jabber/XMPP is currently one of the best chat system that's currently available - and much more than just a simple chat system.
A vacuum oil well - using water to check for oily contamination in a vacuum chamber
4 mins
This blog post describes a really simple method to get a hint if the interior of a vacuum chamber has been contaminated with some oil without the use of expensive chemical analysis.
Estimated blog post reading time with Jekylls liquid
3 mins
This blog post describes - as a less than 5 minute read - how one can implement the now everywhere visible feature that tells people how long it'll take on average to read a given blog post.
avrdude: verification error, first mismatch at byte 0x0002
3 mins
A common error - but the solution is easy to forget. And it's even harder when using the Arduino IDE
