Matteo Van den Broeck 10/9/26 Matteo Van den Broeck 10/9/26

From Scratch to Wind Tunnel: Building an Anemometer in One Week

One week, three engineering students, and one challenge: build a working anemometer from scratch. From 3D printing and Arduino programming to calibration and wind tunnel testing, here's how we brought our little engineering project to life!

Matteo Van den Broeck 10/8/26 Matteo Van den Broeck 10/8/26

I Bought Two Old Apple Xserves — And Found Their Previous Lives Inside

I bought two almost 20-year-old Apple Xserves mostly because I thought they were incredibly cool. What started as a retro-hardware purchase quickly turned into a complete ownership and security takeover.

Matteo Van den Broeck 10/6/26 Matteo Van den Broeck 10/6/26

I Bought a Travel Router So My Devices Never Have to Join Public Wi-Fi

Instead of connecting my laptop, phone and tablet directly to hotel or café Wi-Fi, I carry my own router. One connection to the public network gives all of my devices their own familiar, isolated network behind it.

Matteo Van den Broeck 9/28/26 Matteo Van den Broeck 9/28/26

My Hermes Agents Looked Healthy — But Couldn’t Actually Think

The gateways were running, the ports were listening and the agents still looked alive. But several of them could no longer perform inference. That failure changed how I define “healthy” for an AI agent.