In 2018 I felt that I didn’t have enough OOP experience and decided to try myself in app development. Context: In Kazakhstan like in many post-Soviet countries, local government officials are not elected, but are assigned from the central government (which is, frankly, often corrupt and de-facto authoritarian). Consequently, the incentive landscape for the local …
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Just a small weekend project. Ideally, I was supposed to be able to see my breath or warm air flow off my hands. Might return to this in the future.
Here is a draft design of a simple buck converter. Hope you find it useful! PART I: DESIGN PART II: ASSEMBLY and AMENDMENTS
I am building a plasma arc speaker using Proto G’s design. I named this project “бір мың құс” and engraved it on a wooden platform with a soldering iron. The name means “One Thousand Birds” in my language for the peculiar sound the plasma arc makes. It is a tribute to Sasuke’s Chidori which bears …
I built an analog synth using Ray Wilson‘s open source circuit designs and made an hour long analysis of its VCO circuitry to contribute to the open source community. This project could have been completed in a couple weeks, but took me around 9 months because I was working on it while also preparing for …
I volunteer at Lowell Makes, a local non-profit MakerSpace, as an Electronics Co-captain. We had a couple of old oscilloscope units lying around and we decided to use them as scope music display units. Oscilloscope music is a music file specifically designed to be displayed on a regular oscilloscope. The music is written in a …
During Summer break, I got a chance to make some liquid art in ProTvorchestvo art studio in Almaty, Kazakhstan. I later converted that art piece into a watch face with some of the shelf watch mechanisms. I think it turned out grear!