I am a
HENGINEER.

hengineer /ˈhɛn.dʒɪ.nɪər/
[n.] hengineer
1. A blend of "Hen" (変, Japanese for odd / strange) and "Engineer."
2. Someone who pours real engineering skill into building gloriously useless, strange things — at full throttle.
3. A person who insists on looking all the way inside, from silicon to the web.
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Battle Records

WINNER

Grand Prize Winner

Various Tech Contests
Top prizes across multiple tech contests.
(For speed of implementation and originality.)

RECOGNITION

Corporate Awards

From Major Tech Companies
Special and sponsor awards from major tech companies.
(For its niche technical focus and finish.)

ACADEMIC

Deep Tech Research

Graduate Research
Research in visible light communication and CMOS design.
(The physical-layer knowledge behind every hack.)

Weird & Serious Works

THE ROOTS

VLC / CMOS Design

[Where it all began] Serious graduate-school research: designing a photodetector chip in a CMOS process. It's this physical-layer grounding that lets me build even the strange stuff deeply.

CMOS Analog Physics
Legacy Research
ON AIR

Tech-Scout Radio

"A normal stream would be boring," so I built my own web radio station from scratch with WebRTC and Python — a pointlessly low-latency system.

Python WebRTC Flask
Give it a listen
COLLAB

Smart Sausage Machine

A sausage vending machine I'm building with a friend in Taiwan. Overloaded with IoT, aiming for the most high-tech way to serve a sausage on Earth.

IoT Hardware Yummy
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WIP

RISC-V & FPGA

My urge to look inside is running wild. Experiments running a RISC-V core on an FPGA — the joy of building a CPU yourself.

Verilog RISC-V Deep Dive
In progress

Open Lectures

"I want to make my own chip." — a lecture series that starts from that itch.
Learn the whole stack end to end, from the inside of a chip to the board that carries it.

SERIES
SILICON → PCB / THE WHOLE STACK, END TO END

Chip Makers (7 parts)

Everything from the inside of a chip (silicon) to the board (PCB) that carries it: a reading corner, a fundamentals course, and five hands-on courses — KiCad, PCB Automation with Code & AI, FPGA, LibreLane, and Build-Your-Own RISC-V SoC (three foundations, plus a capstone and a PCB-applied course that tie them together). Start from the portal page.

The Chip Cambrian Explosion How CPUs Work KiCad PCB Automation with Code & AI FPGA LibreLane RISC-V SoC