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Writing & projects

Notes on Laravel, side projects, and the occasional rabbit hole.

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KijkZeLeven

B2C web application to transform images to videos using AI

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Vigilant

Open source and self hostable all-in-one monitoring tool for websites.

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F14 Tomcat Pinball Machine

Doing some upgrades on a 1987 pinball machine

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Pixel Art Frame

Playing GIF's of arcade and pinball games on dot matrix displays using an ESP32

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Concert Trackr

I often go to concerts and I wanted a way to track which concerts I am going to and which I've been to.I created a website called Concert Trackr to do this for me

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Building an Arcade Cabinet Part 4 - Control panel

Only one thing left, the control panel!

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Building an Arcade Cabinet Part 3 - Power, PC, monitor and sound

In this part of the arcade cabinet built we are going to connect the power, put the PC in the cabinet, add the monitor and sound. When this is done the cabinet will be playable! So beware, I don't know when the next part is coming, I might be too busy playing ;)

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Building an Arcade Cabinet Part 2 - The cabinet

Now that I got my design it is time to built the cabinet itself. I am not a good woodworker, I just document my journey here so please keep that in mind. If you're serious about building an arcade cabinet I'd suggest you read and watch many tutorial like this, everyone does it a little bit different.

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Building an Arcade Cabinet Part 1 - Planning

When I was 16 I built my first arcade cabinet, it wasn't a nice cabinet and way too big for my room at the time. I've always said: If I buy a house, I'll build an arcade cabinet for in my living room.That time has now come, I've got a house, now just the arcade cabinet.

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