Christmas star lights

This article is a translation of the one I wrote on the Téléfab website. This project was built in the Téléfab. Christmas is coming! It is the perfect time to build yourself christmas star lights as an ornament for your christmas tree. To differentiate this ornament from the ones you can buy, I decided to […]

A decorative LED frame

This article describes how I built a decorative LED frame using a cheap photo frame, an RGB LED strip and an Arduino.

Hardware accelerated network monitoring: NetFPGA

During my third year at Télécom Bretagne, I worked on a project with two colleagues to develop an hardware accelerated network monitoring tool using a NetFPGA. This low-level project was very interesting and made me discover how to develop directly in hardware using a language called Verilog. To let you discover this project, I pasted […]

Django better than a CMS?

I recently had to rewrite a website I’m maintaining for a very small business: Le fil à soi. They are 3 teacher who offer courses of chinese massage, qi gong and Gestalt therapy in Bordeaux, France. The requirements for the website are quite simple: presentation of the place, the people, and contact information pages for […]

Jolicloud internship: first steps of a start-up

I just finished my internship at Jolicloud as part of my studies in TELECOM Bretagne. It lasted almost one year. Jolicloud is a new start-up created by Tariq Krim (who created Netvibes) that builds an operating system adapted to netbooks and focused on the web technologies and services. I lived from the inside the launching […]

Tiny6 – IPv6 in sensor networks

During the semester I spent in India from January to June 2008, I participated to the Tiny6 project between TELECOM Bretagne in France, the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG) and an university in China. Goal of the project Sensor networks arenetworks of small nodes that communicate through a wireless link. They often use their […]

My UWA widgets

I am yet migrating to this blog all the projects I maintain. As part of this process, I just migrated all the UWA widgets I created. UWA widgets are tiny web applications that can run on platforms like Netvibes, IGoogle, Live.com, Opera, the Vista sidebar or the Apple dashboard. I describe all these widgets in […]

TvOnResEl: watch TV on your computer easily!

As I arrived at TELECOM Bretagne, I discovered the ResEl : the students’ network. I discovered too that they were broadcasting all free TV channels on the network. The problem : the recommended software to watch these channel was VLC, a very powerful media player, but very complicated to use and not really adapted to […]