Insights into Breadboard Layout
Some insights and thoughts about breadboard organization and layout tradeoffs.
This highlights my focus on analysis and improvement down to the lowest details.
Read Article →I'm a software developer, inventor and leader looking for new employment opportunities.
This page showcases some of my interests, thoughts, projects and experience.
Some insights and thoughts about breadboard organization and layout tradeoffs.
This highlights my focus on analysis and improvement down to the lowest details.
Read Article →Some ideas to improve workshop software usability.
Another example of post-project analysis and follow-up with continuous improvement and innovation.
Read Article →Can a 10 year old bitcoin miner compete against a budget graphics card for AI tasks?
I think not only about the tech, but also the economics and evolution of products and the technology they are built on.
Read Article →Exfiltrating General System Performance via JavaScript
An example of getting more from less and extracting information and insight from places one would not normally expect!
Read Article →What I did as an ecosystem engineer at Crunchyroll.
This is an example of my leadership experience and ability to build up teams and foundational infrastructure.
Read Article →An exploration of a Hyperoperators + more in Python.
This was a theoretical diversion into some fundamentals of mathematics through computation. My Ph.D. Math Professor colleage who I shared this with said it had some similarities with work done by Knuth, Hilbert and others.
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Working on a personal project and needed to debug some TLS mutual authentication problems. I could find no good example of end-to-end self-signed chained cert creation and validation using OpenSSL. So now there is this: TLS Certs Example Scripts
In 2017 I made an Internet connected Halloween Costume with some Raspberry Pi Zeros, some displays of different types and servos. It was "living symbiotic armor" with 2/3 of the symbiants connected to Twitter. Videos Here
I got interested in the exercise of implementing an ASIC for the TEA encryptor using only basic logic gates. It was certainly impractical. I didn't complete the project but got reasonably far and had a lot of fun. The blog below logs 12 checkpoints in the process. TEA from Gates
I started running competitively again in 2020 and have been really enjoying it.
I like tinkering with 3D printers. I've even designed some aquarium accessories that I sell on ebay.
Intake Filter for Fluval Aqua Clear
I enjoy projects that employ microcontrollers as well as vintage comuting. I've created a workshop for building your own 6502 based computer. You can kearn more about here: the6502.com
I collect vintage and unusual electronics, mostly computer chips. Here are a few posts about some of the interesting items in my collection:
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| CPU Simulator |
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| Book Written in DNA |
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| Commercially Reverse Engineered Chip |
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| Crypto Enabled Z80 from 1988 |
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Developed, managed and deployed several HTML5 Living Room Experience apps for the following platforms: Samsung, LG, VIDAA (Hisense), TitanOS (Philips/JVC) with device support for 100’s of millions of devices and millions of subscribers
Designed and managed external partner RokuOS SDK for SoC + chipset vendors. Many device related hardware patents issued and pending: 11670161, 20240426994, 12170824, 12117513, 11962841, 11875672, 11843836, 11523189
Developed and deployed tools, infrastructure, and services for use for external partner integration and certification related to Security & DRM features. Platforms and Languages included Javascript, Python, Java, C/C++
Built full dev and test team for new development office in Mountain View (HQ in MD)
Designed, developed and implemented partner facing Cloud based web services as well as provided a scalable and fault tolerant communication gateway server allowing, push/pull mechanism for sending commands to remote devices behind firewalls, NATted, etc.
Managed and led development efforts for desktop, device, cross platform compression engine for SendStuffNow for the Productivity & Graphics group. Patent for product design: 20130046833.
Email Casten: casten dot riepling at gmail dot com