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The Most Important Part of Our Solar Tracker Wasn’t the Code
Why the physical arrangement of two light sensors mattered before our Solar Tracker software could make a useful decision.
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Technical Note
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The LED Was Easy. Understanding the Registers Wasn’t.
What a simple LED exercise taught me about memory-mapped registers, documentation, and the hardware hidden behind high-level code.
- STM32
- Embedded C
- Memory-Mapped Registers
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Embedded SystemsTechnical Note
4 min read
I Thought the Sensor Sent a Number Straight to the Screen
How seeing plant measurements on a screen led me to trace the full path from a physical variable to information, supervision, and control.
- Instrumentation
- PLC
- SCADA
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Summer TrainingExperience Reflection
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Two Weeks Were Enough to Change My Questions
An early reflection on how two weeks inside a water desalination plant changed the questions I asked about real engineering systems.
- Summer Training
- Industrial Systems
- Engineering Practice
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Summer TrainingTechnical Note
4 min read
I Used to Think Faster Always Meant Better
The Lean Six Sigma idea that changed my view of improvement: a faster task can still make the complete process worse.
- Lean Six Sigma
- Process Improvement
- Quality
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Lean Six Sigma White Belt CertificationTechnical Note
4 min read
The Receiver Wasn’t Cleaning the Signal. It Was Making a Decision.
How a Digital Communication System project changed my view of matched filtering from waveform cleaning to evidence-based symbol decisions.
- Matched Filtering
- Digital Communications
- MATLAB
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A Digital Communication System Under NoiseProject Reflection
4 min read
The Most Important Part of Our Solar Tracker Wasn’t the Code
Why the physical arrangement of two light sensors mattered before our Solar Tracker software could make a useful decision.
- Solar Tracker
- Sensor Geometry
- Embedded Control
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Arduino Solar Tracker