After a long gap, I’m starting to write again.
This blog is called Orderly Chaos because that’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.
A few things I’m working on that will probably show up here soon:
- Tapping the CAN bus on my racecar’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’ll show the dead ends, the parts that took longer than expected, and the things I’d do differently.
If any of this sounds interesting, the RSS feed is in the header.