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The early days of wind- and PV-power were rough: the engineers fought against oil-leaks in the pitch-mechanism of wind-power-systems and PV-inverters lived up to their German name “Wechselrichter” (wechsel = change) in an unfortunate way, as they had to be

A dynamic electricity tariff is a flexible pricing model where the cost of electricity changes hourly or in 15-minute intervals based on live exchange rates.

In 1994 I got my first computer: an Intel i486 DX2-66 with 4 MB RAM and a 512MB harddisk.

Since May 2025 I’ve spent my spare time and some nightshifts on working on an OpenSource Operating System for the Behringer X32. 12 Months later, a community is growing around this software and a lot of things are already working quite well.

In my last post I showed how I used a neural network for a latency-free De-Feedback audio-plugin for live-applications.

Since November 2022 AI is present in the mainstream: OpenAI published the LLM ChatGPT.

The X32 has been around since 2012.

Together with some students and a colleague I took part at the International Future Energy Challenge (IFEC) in 2024.

Table of Contents Calculating duty cycle for continuous current Discontinuos currents Rewriting a complex function – with complex numbers Testing solution 1: the short one Solutions 2 and 3: the heavy ones In mid-2010s I’ve spent weeks on comparing differ…

In 2023, I published a video on my YouTube channel about reading and processing the Behringer UltraNet protocol (see YouTube: Hacking Behringer’s Ultranet for an FPGA-based DIY audio mixer). in this blog post I’d like to take a bit more time to describe t…