Python on cstenkamp.de

Better WLED LEDMap Generator

cstenkamp@gmail.com (Chris Stenkamp) — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Code to create a WLED LED-Map (the JSON that tells WLED the positions of the LEDs) with some features that I didn’t find in any online editors: Dragging the mouse over the canvas fills all hovered cells, rescaling the map to a different size, inverting, and inserting LEDs in between existing ones.

The Palapian's Spaceship

cstenkamp@gmail.com (Chris Stenkamp) — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Automatic Meal Recognition

cstenkamp@gmail.com (Chris Stenkamp) — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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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.

Siddata Study Assistant

cstenkamp@gmail.com (Chris Stenkamp) — Mon, 16 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The Siddata-Project facilitates study individualization through a digital data-driven assistant, available as a Stud.IP Plugin.

Masterthesis: Explainable Course Recommendation

cstenkamp@gmail.com (Chris Stenkamp) — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

For this thesis, I created a Conceptual Space from Course Descriptions for explainable Recommendation, in a highly performant pipeline on the university-grid.

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Button-Board

cstenkamp@gmail.com (Chris Stenkamp) — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Wifi-Connected Party Lights

cstenkamp@gmail.com (Chris Stenkamp) — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Gesture Recognition in Large Video Corpora

cstenkamp@gmail.com (Chris Stenkamp) — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Lectures on Scientific Programming in Python

cstenkamp@gmail.com (Chris Stenkamp) — Tue, 07 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000

A comprehensive course, with lectures and interactive assignments, about Scientific Programming in Python, offered for three years at the University of Osnabrück.

Chatbot: Guru To Go

cstenkamp@gmail.com (Chris Stenkamp) — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

A speech-controlled meditation assistant and sentiment tracker

Deep Document Splitter

cstenkamp@gmail.com (Chris Stenkamp) — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

An automated pipeline to split a bunch of scanned pages into single documents

Bachelorthesis: Controlling Race Cars with Deep ANNs

cstenkamp@gmail.com (Chris Stenkamp) — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000

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.