If you have already realized that this page you have stumbled upon might be an old-school personal website of someone otherwise known as Gyula Molnár I've just handed in my thesis last week as I'm writing this, so the end is certainly near. I have recently defended my master's thesis, yet we are still doomed nonetheless.
I otherwise enjoy learning languages, playing around with electronics and programming projects, hiking, and riding the bike. I furthermore absolutely despise bikes; something malfunctions every few hundred kilometers, as if it was a law of nature. Their construction is just downright garbage as compared to other mechanical contraptions, say, meat grinders. Whoopsie, I guess I got a broken crank arm again. It's really on me though; you know what they say: you should bring your meat grinder for a checkup at least once a year. I mean, with a recent, well-maintained grinder it rarely ever happens. "I don't know, man. I grind every now and then, but all I ever encountered was a loose fastening pin." Good for you; now I run every second or third day, and take the bus, and hate it. 🤷 I went off on a tangent all right.
I reckon human resource experts are much pleased by enumerations of entertaining facts, thus I hereby would like to present three of such curiosities. I...
- ...am frightened of gas boilers. By all means they provide hot water, yet at the cost of abrupt noises. Cannot trust them. 💥
- ...am a firm believer in that under no circumstances should anyone in their right mind ever assume the existence of corporate altruism. 🤷
- ...think I am decent at egg pickling, although I have only tried twice. 🥚
Here are some projects I'm more or less proud of.
- My project work and my master's thesis.
- These YouTube videos, mostly about topics related to mathematics, language acquisition, and pickled eggs.
- This Russian declension table. There is also a version with German labels here.
- This small browser demonstration of Torricelli's Law. The source code is available here.
- This (another image here) breadboard/THT adapter for the ESP12E/F WiFi module. You could insert this into a breadboard, and still have a row left free on each side. Furthermore, the pins at the bottom of the module were also connected, unlike with some other adapters. I sold some on eBay. You can download the KiCad project and Gerber files from here.
- This (further images here and here) QFP/TQFP/LQFP/FQFP 32-44-48-64 0.5/0.8 mm pitch inline breadboard adapter. I also sold some of these on eBay. Download from here.
- This prototype of a "smart window", with which we won a 24-hour hackathon. It could basically measure temperature and humidity, based on which values the "window" opened or closed itself. You could also monitor said data online. We then —at another 24-hour hackathon— extended the above into this idea of a smart home platform where you could program smart home equipment in a Scratch-like environment. It did technically work to some extent in that you could set delays and turn an LED on or off as I remember. "Can you imagine? You don't even have to be able to code, yet could throw whatever logic you want at your home!" — we said. The jury was like "Yeah, like what? Give us one example.", and we went "Like... Wh... Come on, like... No you don't understand, this is... this is great. All the possibilities, bro." We came in second.
- This Visegrád T-shirt design. Also, this and this version. I totally don't own any of those space shots, yet I can't remember where I got them anymore (Google image search also doesn't help much with these kind of images) so I'm unable to provide citation. Anyways, I chose the thug life; contact me if you want them taken down.
- This adjustable container inlay for camshaft transportation. Here is how it works. Now, I was an intern at an automotive company at the time, and this was an idea that happened to pop into my mind on a weekend. Since I was using a lot of Solid Edge at the time (for university homework) I just went and drew it, showing it to my boss the next Monday. Long story short, the idea was taken over, but my actual design was relied on only as a concept, due to weight, form, and durability considerations. Anyhow, a supplier of packaging technology manufactured a whole bunch of the derived version (I would love to share a picture of it with actual camshafts and 3D-printed camshaft models in there, but I obviously can't give out trade secrets of my formal employer), and they were in actual productive use in-house, and for international transport as well.
- This auxiliary monitor utilizing an LCD panel from an old laptop, a fitting Chinese driver board, and a balanced-arm mechanism (sold as a tablet holder). The image was a bit noisy, and also... turns out old laptop screens are not made for being looked at in portrait mode, so you'd always see a slight gradient. But it was great to have an extra screen for the terminal windows and for increased hackerness.
- Some other things, like an electronics component organizer (based on barcodes, envelopes, shoeboxes, and spreadsheets), and a small plug-in step-down power module with undervoltage, overvoltage, overcurrent, and polarity protection. I still need to bring these into a presentable form though, so check back soon.
Here are some things that I also spent time on, but that are in precious-precious Hungarian.
- My submission to a student competition (TDK) from when I was doing my bachelor's. I won second place in the local round, then wisely stopped competing.
- This sheet of all the words in the Duolingo Dutch course, and their Hungarian translations. From this I've also made an Anki deck with text-to-speech in both languages, yet I don't want to share it until I went through all the cards myself. This is because on one hand I want to find as many mistakes as possible, and on the other hand I would like all het-words to have an image assigned for easier memorization.
- This and this were university assignments during my bachelor's, and although there is nothing extraordinary or special about them (I don't even know what grades I got anymore; they may be objectively awful), they are still close to my heart somehow.
- This love letter to the cardboard cutout of Hungarian TV-hostess Nóra Ördög, which was picked up by the grocery store chain with which she had an advertisement contract at the time, and which was then turned into a nationwide ad campaign starring yours truly. Most importantly, I got the girl.
- This (also available here, although in inferior quality) 1979 Chinese animated fantasy film classic Nezha Conquers the Dragon King. As far as I know the Hungarian dub was not available anywhere until someone realized they had an old VHS recording, which they must have digitalized, ripping the sound, fitting it under a Greek version of more acceptable image quality. (Unrelated: you would think that you just take the sound, and match it up with the image at one point, or —in the worst case— at the beginning and at the end, and you're basically done, right? Well, no. The sound falls behind and gets ahead randomly. It's black magic.) Anyhow, a fellow country(wo)man took this soundtrack and put it under the 16:9 remastered version even. Funny how we also had such a recording at home, which I used to like a lot for it was unlike any other cartoons. No, it was weird, it was special. Nobody even knew it's title, so I decided it must be something equally weird, like, I don't know... Say, ipirongionio.
- This comparison of my experiences gathered while doing my bachelor's in Budapest, Hungary vs. those I picked up throughout my master's studies in Chemnitz, Germany.
Here are some projects I'm less proud of.
- This train wreck.
- This thing. So, in Hungary we have a widespread high school custom of each graduating class designing a board with students' and teachers' photos on it. Its format is more fixed than, say, a collage, yet leaves a lot of room for customization. It's basically a wall-mountable yearbook, I guess? Here, take a look. Anyways, this gets hung on a piece of wall in the alma mater, and stays there until nobody remembers you anymore and there's no wall area left. Anyways, ours were to have a countdown timer that would display the days left until the next class reunion. This idea actually came from my dad, who's an electronics technician, and who was unable to deliver, hence a 10-by-20 centimeter emptiness in our collective memory prevails. I took over some years ago, and although I believe I am not that far from having it built, I have made some very stupid mistakes along the way resulting in multiple PCB redesigns and reorders. In fact, I'm stuck again as I'm writing this, because the STM32F415RGT6 MCU that I'm using in this design is basically constantly sold out worldwide due to chip shortage. Well, it's not really because of chip shortage, rather it is chip shortage. Man, I don't know what to expect; we'll meet again in 2026 and see.
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