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Field notes on training, technology, and prototyping.
- Engineering August 4, 2026 · 6 min read
I Let an AI Tune My Firmware for 40 Iterations. It Made Things Worse.
An honest account of trying to automate firmware parameter tuning with Claude Code, what the setup looked like, why it failed, and what it taught me about where AI actually breaks down.
Read article → - Sport July 9, 2026 · 4 min read
The Heavy Legacy of Vittori and Mennea: How a Method Built Around One Outlier Held Back Italian Sprinting
A generation of sprinters ruined by a common misconception
Read article → - Engineering June 21, 2026 · 7 min read
NRF24L01: the cheap 2.4 GHz radio that actually works in the field — if you know where it hides
A practical guide to building wireless sensor networks with the NRF24L01 — what makes it the right choice for sport-tech field devices, and the one hardware mistake that cost me over a year of troubleshooting.
Read article → - Engineering June 20, 2026 · 5 min read
IMU sensors: why the accelerometer and gyroscope are useless alone — and powerful together
A clear explanation of what accelerometers and gyroscopes actually measure, why each one fails on its own, and how combining them with a complementary filter solves both problems at once.
Read article → - Sport June 19, 2026 · 9 min read
Accommodating resistance: how bands and chains fix the fundamental flaw in barbell training
Why a constant-weight barbell is never the optimal load throughout a lift — and how variable resistance fixes it, what the research says about how much to use, and which exercises actually benefit.
Read article → - Sport June 18, 2026 · 9 min read
Velocity-Based Training: how bar speed tells you more than the weight on the bar
A practical guide to VBT — what it measures, why it beats percentage-based programming for finding your optimal training load, and which exercises actually benefit from it.
Read article → - Projects June 17, 2026 · 15 min read
How I Turned a Cheap Alarm Clock Into a Heads-Up Display for My Runs (Part 2)
Wiring the ESP32, staring down a Chinese datasheet, and spending half a day brute-forcing a segment map — until the display finally showed the right number.
Read article → - Projects June 16, 2026 · 9 min read
How I Turned a Cheap Alarm Clock Into a Heads-Up Display for My Runs (Part 1)
Reverse-engineering a projection alarm clock, an ESP32, and a heart-rate strap into a training device that throws my data on the wall in front of me.
Read article → - General June 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Welcome — where sport meets the soldering iron
Former national-team athlete, dual degrees in Sport Science and Engineering, fifteen-plus years of daily training. This is where I write about all of it.
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