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