This trip was made back in 2022, as a part of my travel to an academic conference in Bochum. My beloved Gonville & Caius College and the Engineering Department has sponsored this thip. Little did they know their money — which was supposed to be spent on a direct train Read more…
There has been several authors working on Hong Kong highway LED signs, including tollauto’s tool and rk113’s tool. Their approaches are functional and are fun to work with, but not elegant. Therefore, I came up with a new approach to emulate LED fonts in their original form. Most matrix LEDs Read more…
If you ask an amateur font, self-proclaimed, person like me ‘what font should I use if I want something industrial, and minimalist’. You are very likely be told ‘DIN 1451’, the classic. I thought the same, but since I have always been obsessed with this specific type of sans-serif typefaces, Read more…
Since few summers ago I have kept my eye on a popular bidding site. I was attracted by a few German railway clocks (as a less-famous brother to their Swiss counterpart). I have since brought several, some even have second hands (not synchronised though), and rescued them from the brutal Read more…
Background As a fluid research student sometimes working from home, using Ansys software can sometimes be a frustration. My university provides an Ansys licence server, which is only accessible via the university IP address, which means one cannot use it outside the university’s local network unless tunnelling through a VPN. Read more…
A recent browse of old files has reminded me of my long-overdue dream of having a neon light sign of Cho Kee – my dining brand (ok – just my kitchen). Neon still seems impossible so I have to explore other options. LED edge-lit light box came to my attention Read more…
A close and reliable source has revealed to me today (1 April 2022) that it is under the plan of HS2, DfT and Network Rail to test a set of HST and Class A4 and race for a new speed record on the specifically-built high-speed route.
This project was a risky take for me, as I was not an expert in electrical, probably clueless and ignorant of the whole subject. During my university degree, I had a particularly unpleasant time studying electrical, saying by achieving less than 60% in all my undergrad electrical modules, while 80%+ Read more…
Recently, I have been extremely procrastinative in work and productive in other stuff. Therefore, you might see me switching topics from design to PC setting and back to PhD research in a row. You know a deadline is coming. I did a brief and simple test on my new i7 Read more…
I have just re-discovered the usage of this blog — not only serves as a platform to present stuff, but also somewhere to throw internet rubbish, paid by the rubbish-producer himself, at least. I have been fiddling around with an Asus RT-AC85P router for a while. Something starts to annoy Read more…