Programming, studies and a little bit of everything else.
My name is Sebastian Nilsson. On this domain I will write about the projects I am involved with or interested in..
Latest from the blog
Back to basics with October CMS
My brother needed a new simple one-page website for his CV. I usually do my websites in WordPress, but today I wanted to try something new. The content management systems (CMS) I evaluated were: Craftcms contentful Octobercms.com Pagekit Bolt Sitecake…
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Appium MQTT backdoor
Appium is generally considered a blackbox testing tool, that is it has no access to the app's methods. Appium acts on the elements accessible by an user. But what if that is not enough? For example if you want to…
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Our game Bananpiren has launched!
After years of inactive development I have decided to release the game I made together with my brother; Bananpiren. It is a game where you control a banana boat in Gothenburg. Your task is to transport as many banana crates…
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Enable dark mode on your website with CSS
Dark mode is getting more and more popular. It is easier on the eyes and especially when working late. Both Windows and MacOS support setting the color scheme to a darker tint, but the websites we visit stay the same.…
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Setup free VPN between Windows and Ubuntu Linux computers
Use case, say that you have a corporate server that you want team members to access. Maybe it is running a build server (Jenkins) and source control repository (GitLab). Instead of publishing these services on the web we can keep…
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Featured projects
Realtime data plotter
Debugging sensors on a microprocessor can be a hassle and the most used approach is to output the sensor values to a serial monitor. Realtime plotting is a better and more visual way of doing the same thing.
Self-balancing robot
A larger Arduino project where I get a robot to balance like a segway.
Home automation with Eventghost web gui
Instructions and videos for making a good home automation. Handles everything from light bulbs, starting the coffee machine to controlling a home theater.
Västtrafik Monitor v2
Monitor for Västtrafik public transport.
Chalmers
Material from my time at the Automation and Mechatronics program at Chalmers University of Technology..
- Timeedit in Google Calendar
- Bachelor Thesis (Programming a robotic cell)
- Spring pendulum in Matlab
- Signals, sensors and systems
- Lecture notes
