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<div class="card"><h3><a href="/blog/jupyterlab-notebook-file-oneliner/">Getting the .ipynb Notebook File Location From a Running Jupyter Lab Notebook</a></h3><strong>2025-06-29</strong>
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<p>If you need to get the path of the ipynb file in a running #Jupyter notebook, this one-liner will do the trick. It seems chatgpt is confused, and a bunch of other approaches on the web look fragile and/or unnecessarily complex to me.</p>
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<div class="card"><h3><a href="/blog/8seg/">8seg Technical Overview</a></h3><strong>2023-12-26</strong>
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<p>8seg is a large-scale LED light art installation that displays text on a 1.5 meter high, 30 meter wide 8-segment display made from cheap LED tape.</p>
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<div class="card"><h3><a href="/blog/telekom-gpon-sfp/">Ubiquiti EdgeRouter on Deutsche Telekom GPON Fiber</a></h3><strong>2022-02-21</strong>
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<p>Short tutorial on getting a Deutsche Telekom GPON internet connection running using a SFP ONU unit in an Ubiquiti EdgeRouter.</p>
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<div class="card"><h3><a href="/blog/ihsm-worlds-first-diy-hsm/">New Paper on Inertial Hardware Security Modules</a></h3><strong>2021-11-23</strong>
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<p>Paper announcement: We have published a paper on how you can DIY a tamper-sensing hardware security module from any single-board computer using a moving tamper-sensing mesh made from cheap PCBs.</p>
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<div class="card"><h3><a href="/blog/kicad-mesh-plugin/">Kicad Mesh Plugin</a></h3><strong>2020-08-18</strong>
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<p>I wrote a little KiCad plugin that you can use to create security meshes, heaters and other things where you need one or more traces cover the entire surface of a PCB. The plugin supports arbitrary PCB shapes, cutouts, and can route around existing footprints and traces on the PCB.</p>
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<div class="card"><h3><a href="/blog/private-contact-discovery/">Private Contact Discovery</a></h3><strong>2019-06-22</strong>
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<p>I gave a short introduction into Private Contact Discovery protocols at our university workgroup.</p>
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<div class="card"><h3><a href="/blog/hsm-basics/">Hardware Security Module Basics</a></h3><strong>2019-05-17</strong>
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<p>I gave a short introduction into Hardware Security Modules at our university workgroup, including an overview on interesting research directions.</p>
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<div class="card"><h3><a href="/blog/serial-protocols/">How to talk to your microcontroller over serial</a></h3><strong>2018-05-19</strong>
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<p>Scroll to the end for the <a class="reference internal" href="#conclusion">TL;DR</a>.</p>
<p>In this article I will give an overview on the protocols spoken on serial ports, highlighting common pitfalls. I will
summarize some points on how to design a serial protocol that is simple to implement and works reliably even under error
conditions.</p>
<p>If you have done low-level microcontroller firmware you will regularly have had to stuff some data up a serial port to
another microcontroller or to a computer. In the age of USB, an old-school serial port is still the simplest and
quickest way to get communication to a control computer up and running. Integrating a ten thousand-line USB stack into
your firmware and writing the necessary low-level drivers on the host side might take days. Poking a few registers to
set up your UART to talk to an external hardware USB to serial converter is a matter of minutes.</p></div>
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<div class="card"><h3><a href="/blog/thors-hammer/">Thor's Hammer</a></h3><strong>2018-05-03</strong>
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<p>In case you were having an inferiority complex because your friends' IBM Model M keyboards are so much louder than the
shitty rubber dome freebie you got with your pc... Here's the solution: Thor's Hammer, a simple typing cadence enhancer
for <a class="reference external" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS/2_port">PS/2</a> keyboards.</p>
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</figure><p>The connects to the keyboard's PS/2 clock line and briefly actuates a large solenoid on each key press. An interesting
fact about PS/2 is that the clock line is only active as long as either the host computer or the input device actually
want to send data. In case of a keyboard that's the case when a key is pressed or when the host changes the keyboard's
LED state, otherwise the clock line is silent. We ignore the LED activity for now as it's generally coupled to key
presses. By just triggering an NE555 configured as astable flipflop we can stretch each train of clock pulses to a
pulse a few tens of milliseconds long that is enough to actuate the solenoid.</p></div>
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<div class="card"><h3><a href="/blog/multichannel-led-driver/">32-Channel LED tape driver</a></h3><strong>2018-05-02</strong>
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<p>Together, a friend and I outfitted the small staircase at Berlin's Chaos Computer Club with nice, shiny RGB-WW LED tape for ambient lighting. For this installation, I made a 32-channel LED driver that achieves high dynamic range on all 32 channels using a cheap microcontroller by using Binary Code Modulation.</p>
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<div class="card"><h3><a href="/blog/wifi-led-driver/">Wifi Led Driver</a></h3><strong>2018-05-02</strong>
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<p>After the <a href="#system-message-1"><span class="problematic" id="problematic-1">`multichannel LED driver`_</span></a> was completed, I was just getting used to controlling LEDs at 14-bit resolution. I liked the board we designed in this project, but at 32 channels it was a bit large for most use cases. Sometimes I just want to pop a piece of LED tape or two somewhere, but I don't need a full 32 channels of control. I ended up thinking that a smaller version of the 32-channel driver that didn't require a separate control computer would be handy. So I sat down and designed a variant of the design with only 8 channels instead of 32 and an on-board <a href="#system-message-2"><span class="problematic" id="problematic-2">ESP8266_</span></a> module instead of the <a href="#system-message-3"><span class="problematic" id="problematic-3">RS485_</span></a> transceiver for WiFi connectivity.</p>
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Unknown target name: "esp8266".</div>
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<p class="system-message-title">System Message: ERROR/3 (<tt class="docutils"><stdin></tt>, line 1); <em><a href="#problematic-3">backlink</a></em></p>
Unknown target name: "rs485".</div>
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<div class="card"><h3><a href="/blog/led-characterization/">LED Characterization</a></h3><strong>2018-05-02</strong>
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<h2>Preface</h2>
<p>Recently, I have been working on a <a class="reference external" href="http://jaseg.de/blog/wifi-led-driver/">small driver</a> for ambient lighting using 12V LED strips like you can get
inexpensively from China. I wanted to be able to just throw one of these somewhere, stick down some LED tape, hook it up
to a small transformer and be able to control it through Wifi. When I was writing the firmware, I noticed that when
fading between different colors, the colors look <em>all wrong</em>! This observation led me down a rabbit hole of color
perception and LED peculiarities.</p></div>
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