Projects
One of the most exciting things in IT is that you can move from ideas to an implementation very quickly. In the era of LLMs, this time got so short that it’s difficult to follow what is worth keeping and what not. Here is a list of my latest projects, so I can keep an eye on the most interesting ones, and stay honest with what works and what not. So if you hear me say “this is one of my week-end projects”, well, here are some other ones :)
For Christmas 2024 I thought I’d create a game for my kids and my nephews. I wanted to create something where they could use the phones to play a game together. As display I chose a LED strip, driven by an ESP32, in the form of an Atom Lite. These mini-computers are in fact quite powerful, being able to connect to a WiFi, and drive a LED strip at the same time. So I created a little game where the LED-strip is formed into a circle, and then the users can move their figure along the LED-strip.
With fledger you can be part of a decentralized network simply by opening a web page in your browser:
Fledger uses WebRTC to connect to other browsers and to form a peer-to-peer network without having to install a binary on a server. Currently it has the following two services:
- gossip-network to propagate messages to create a simple chat application
- proxy protocol to send one GET request to a remote node
2025/01 - The current development of fledger is to create a distributed hash table (DHT) and to store a website. The goal is to gather tokens by storing websites of other people, and then being able to use those tokens to have your website stored on other people’s computer. In the end, the following should be implemented: