The Palapian's Spaceship

 Posted on June 28, 2025  |  3 min  • Other languages: 🇩🇪 Deutsch

An interactive, networked spaceship you can actually board: players complete (or sabotage) missions across a dozen physical interfaces - buttons, joysticks, LED boards, sensors, etc - to either launch the ship or doom it, with everything driven by a Python/ESP/Unity stack. It’s modular, auto-resets regularly, and scales to festival crowds without manual babysitting. [Read More]
Hardware  Festival  Wanderzirkus  Raspberry Pi  Microcontroller  Fusion-Festival  Wanderzirkus  interactive-content  Unity  Software  Installation  3D-Prints  Python  C++  CAD 

Automatic Meal Recognition

 Posted on March 15, 2023  |  5 min  • Other languages: 🇩🇪 Deutsch

VisoLab is a startup that creates automated self-checkout registers for canteens, where the meals on the tray are recognized on on edge via an iPad, allowing the customer to pay for their meals within seconds without requiring an employee.

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Software  Machine Learning  ANNs  Data Science  Data Engineering  DevOps  Python  Javascript  interactive-content 

Button-Board

 Posted on December 11, 2021  |  1 min

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After finally (and only for now) accepting that a reliable sound2light-bassline-detection is probably more trouble than it’s worth, I next needed a way for tap2bpm instead. This, however, required new Hardware, and thus, I developed this Button-Board.

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Hardware  Microcontroller  3D-Prints  Software  Python  CAD 

Gesture Recognition in Large Video Corpora

 Posted on March 17, 2021  |  2 min

In this student research job for the Red Hen Lab, I worked on a pipeline that automatically detects hand gestures in large datasets of videos, involving OpenPose for Pose Recognition, Person detection, Person tracking, Scene detection and more, and deployed it on a HPC using Snakemake and Singularity to create a multimodal communication corpus from the Ellen DeGeneres show. [Read More]
Software  Machine Learning  ANNs  Data Science  Big Data  HPC  Python  Tensorflow  Image Recognition 

Bachelorthesis: Controlling Race Cars with Deep ANNs

 Posted on September 14, 2017  |  3 min

Delving into the realm of self-driving cars for my bachelor’s thesis, I endeavored to optimize their tactical decisions, particularly speed, using cutting-edge deep neural networks and reinforcement learning in tensorflow within a transformed racing simulation. The resulting research platform, built on Unity, showcased the potential of real-time feedback and adaptability, offering valuable insights into the future integration of reinforcement learning in self-driving cars. [Read More]
Machine Learning  Software  Unity  Cognitive Science  Python  Graphics  Game  interactive-content