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I'm going to attend the  24th Gulaschprogrammiernacht in Karlsruhe from 4th to 7th of June 2026. Meet me there, I'm sitting in front of the Troll-Desk, next to a big Pebble watch! You can call me at 6176. Stuff accomplished so far: 04.06.2026 fixed a typo in iPod nano 5th DT (u-boot) added RAM part numbers for iPod nano 4th-7th in the freemyipod wiki attended the cross-stiching workshop, made the alpaca pattern found two probable root causes for the wrong UART @ 115200 baudrate on iPod nano 3rd 05.06.2026 attended the LED Strips Everywhere for Everyone! workshop attended the Nintendo 3DS meeting, played Mario Kart 7 gave up on fixing the iPod nano 3rd gen baudrate 06.06.2026 visited the zkm_gameplay exhibition signed up for waffle product preparation volunteer shift 14h-16h attended the Let's make a Pebble watchface workshop signed up for waffle making volunteer shift 18-20h built and tested a busybox-based initramfs for iPod nano 7th gen 07.06.2026 visited the zkm_gamepla...

I'll be at FOSDEM 2026 - meet me in Brussels from 2026-01-29 until 2026-02-02 or on-site at the event.

I'll be attending the 39th Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg from 27th to 30th December 2025. Meet me there!

Here is a non-exhaustive list of the current major projects (my daily job excluded) that I'm working on. init Lab - Sofia's hackerspace - on hold until 2026-06-30 Migrate all accounts to a supported OAuth2 provider ( zitadel ) Vending kiosk with cash and card payments. ( just a MDB driver so far ) Financial transaction integration with our banks ( bank-statements-ng ) Mostly working for MT940, real-time HTML reports can be parsed in parallel Various automation bots ( IRC , Telegram , a Discord one is planned) Telegram bot needs to be moved to the Lab BTHome integration with thermometers and door/window sensors using yasp or an alternative implementation Apple iPods - mostly from iPod nano (2nd generation) up to iPod nano (7th generation) Rockbox ports ( my fork/tree with the progress so far ) an iPod 6G bug with the new display driver needs to be investigated U-boot ports (done for n2g, n5g, n7g, DT needs to be copied/moved to kernel.  repo is here ) Linux ports ( repo is here...