Articles
Technical deep-dives on protocols, firmware, and system design.
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Optical Torque Sensing: Measuring Microscopic Shaft Deformation
How to measure microscopic shaft torsion with optics instead of strain gauges — from the physics to a working prototype, patented in Austria.
"Torque-sensor" "Robotics" "R&D" -
Turning a €250 3D Printer into a Touchscreen Test Station Worth €20k+
How a repurposed FDM printer replaced a €20k thermal-and-motion test setup — and what that says about designing automation architecture around intent, not hardware.
"Robotics" "Automation" "cost-effective-engineering" -
From Mathematical Abstraction to Heterogeneous Robotic Platforms
How chained coordinate transformations — a decades-old robotics tool — can turn a fragile, hardware-specific test automation stack into an architecture that survives hardware change.
"Robotics" "SystemArchitecture" "SoftwareEngineering" -
The Simple Effectiveness of COBS: Framing Serial Data Without Ambiguity
A closer look at Consistent Overhead Byte Stuffing — why it beats naive escaping for framing byte streams over UART and similar links.
"Embedded" "Protocols" "Firmware"