Hi, I’m Chris!
I’m an engineer for power-electronics at the University of Kassel. Do you enjoy tinkering with electronics, microcontrollers or FPGAs like I do? Then you might find something of interest on these pages. 🙂


Most recent blog post
Zero Feed-In with Victron-PV-System
Don’t loose your PV-power to the Grid. Here’s a cheap DIY-solution to keep the PV-energy in your home! General idea
IoT-development: Velux goes MQTT
With the KLF200, Velux offers an ethernet-based device to control shutters and other wireless components. But their implementation is a
Developing PCI Cards with Plug&Play (Part 3)
In this final episode I’ll show how I implemented data-exchange with my card using IRQ and the development of some
IoT-development: Pool-temperature goes MQTT
It’s may and the pool-season has started! So we’ll have a look on how we find the best time to
Developing PCI Cards with Plug&Play (Part 2)
In part 2 of this series I will show my progress on developing a DIY PCI Card using Alteras FLEX10K
FPGA-based FOC for 6-phase BLDC
Motorcontrollers are everywhere, cheap and reliable, but building a field-oriented control (FOC) from scratch to understand the details is a







