David Culot ⁽⁶⁾

A piece of advice. If you manage an #IT company: Do not fire the Tango dancer. Back in 2019, #Vidax found itself in a bit of a pinch at the end of a project, and I had to let go of some great people from…

I clearly remember the daydreaming state I was in while waiting to pick up my son, Emile, from primary school in Kharkiv, Ukraine, just three days before the full-scale invasion in February 2022. I was observing the young parents who, like me, were staring at…

Art & Tech! Here is "Dave I", my first Guitar Tube Amplifier made from a 1946 Ducrete-Thomson radio. This is my very first attempt at deciphering a Tube Amp schematic.  --> I learned the hard way that capacitors hold the charge for a long time…

Back in Ukraine, our children were very small, and I wanted to make them a desk lamp. light box that they could use in the evening instead of the ceiling light. Just 4 pieces of wood, some LEDs, some translucide plexiglass, and of course a…

Quite interesting project as it is one of my first IOT microcontroller project. An ESP32 drives some ws2805 LEDs in a nice looking column. The buttons on the side are some upholstery nails that I used as touch-sensitive buttons to dim the light, change colors…

Sometimes, pain, joy and hope has to go somewhere. In 2020, I went through some rough moments filled with darkness, incertitude, and of course Covid rulling the world. I picked up crayons and let all those emotions flow on paper. My way of taking notes…