[{"content":"I\u0026rsquo;m Nate — a software developer by trade who enjoys learning technology and building things in general. This blog documents technical projects I\u0026rsquo;m working on, across software, hardware, firmware, and things that go fast.\nWhat You\u0026rsquo;ll Find Here Most posts are build logs: here\u0026rsquo;s what I was trying to do, here\u0026rsquo;s what I actually built, here\u0026rsquo;s where I got stuck, and here\u0026rsquo;s what I\u0026rsquo;d do differently. I find that honest write-ups of the messy middle are more useful than polished how-to guides that make everything look easy.\nCurrent project threads:\nSoftware — automation, tooling, and whatever interesting problems come up at work or on the side Electronics \u0026amp; Embedded — CAN bus interfaces, sensor systems, motorsport data acquisition FPGA — from smart card interfaces to oscilloscope art to video synthesis Motorsport — data acquisition, telemetry, and making a racecar smarter one project at a time Video Synthesis — LZX modular systems, scan processing, and whatever the FPGA outputs look like on a screen Elsewhere GitHub — source code for projects discussed here RSS feed — subscribe via the icon in the header if you want to follow along Contact Best way to reach me is through GitHub.\n","permalink":"https://orderlychaos.io/about/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI\u0026rsquo;m Nate — a software developer by trade who enjoys learning technology and building things in general. This blog documents technical projects I\u0026rsquo;m working on, across software, hardware, firmware, and things that go fast.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"what-youll-find-here\"\u003eWhat You\u0026rsquo;ll Find Here\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMost posts are build logs: here\u0026rsquo;s what I was trying to do, here\u0026rsquo;s what I actually built, here\u0026rsquo;s where I got stuck, and here\u0026rsquo;s what I\u0026rsquo;d do differently. I find that honest write-ups of the messy middle are more useful than polished how-to guides that make everything look easy.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"About"},{"content":"After a long gap, I\u0026rsquo;m starting to write again.\nThis blog is called Orderly Chaos because that\u0026rsquo;s more or less how my project workbench looks on a good day — organized enough to find things, chaotic enough to stay interesting. The posts here will document technical projects as they happen: hardware builds, firmware, software, FPGA work, motorsport data systems, and whatever else ends up on the workbench.\nA few things I\u0026rsquo;m working on that will probably show up here soon:\nTapping the CAN bus on my racecar\u0026rsquo;s Racepak data acquisition system to build a temperature-triggered fan controller An FPGA-based redesign of a smart card interface project I have on GitHub Using an FPGA to drive an oscilloscope in XY mode — starting with Lissajous figures, expanding from there A lights-out factory automation project with some interesting software architecture behind it The write-ups will lean toward honest build logs rather than polished tutorials. I\u0026rsquo;ll show the dead ends, the parts that took longer than expected, and the things I\u0026rsquo;d do differently.\nIf any of this sounds interesting, the RSS feed is in the header.\n","permalink":"https://orderlychaos.io/posts/welcome-to-orderly-chaos/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eAfter a long gap, I\u0026rsquo;m starting to write again.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis blog is called Orderly Chaos because that\u0026rsquo;s more or less how my project workbench looks on a good day — organized enough to find things, chaotic enough to stay interesting. The posts here will document technical projects as they happen: hardware builds, firmware, software, FPGA work, motorsport data systems, and whatever else ends up on the workbench.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA few things I\u0026rsquo;m working on that will probably show up here soon:\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Welcome to Orderly Chaos"}]