Welcome

I’m Lodovico — most people call me Lodo.

For most of my life I’ve lived in two worlds that rarely talk to each other. In one, I was a competitive track and field athlete, racing at the national level and training nearly every day for over fifteen years. In the other, I’m an engineer who can’t look at a piece of equipment without wondering how it works, what it’s measuring, and how it could be better.

I never wanted to choose between the two. So I did both: a degree in Sport Science and a degree in Electronic Engineering. One taught me how the human body adapts, breaks, and gets stronger. The other taught me how to turn an idea into something real — circuits, sensors, code, prototypes.

This blog is where those two worlds finally sit at the same table.

What I write about here

I want to share the thing I have that very few people do: the perspective of someone who has been training for more than fifteen years and can open up the device measuring that training and rewire it. So expect a mix of:

• The athlete’s view — what actually matters in training, the gap between what the data says and what the body feels, and honest takes on sport-tech from someone who’s used it on the track, not just read the spec sheet.
• The engineer’s view — building, hacking, and reverse-engineering hardware. ESP32s, BLE, sensors, and the occasional alarm clock turned into a running display.
• Where they meet — turning ideas into real prototypes at the intersection of sport and technology, which is the part I love most.

Why I’m doing this

Fifteen years of training gives you an enormous, hard-won feel for what works. An engineering background gives you the tools to question it, measure it, and build something new. I think the interesting ideas live exactly where those two things overlap — and most people only ever get to stand on one side of that line.

I’m writing this for the curious: athletes who want to understand the tech, engineers curious about sport, and anyone who likes watching an idea become a real, working thing.

Pull up a chair. There’s a lot I want to show you.

— Lodo