Hi, I’m Nia. I make things out of metal, circuits and code.
I’ve been programming since 2013 and building physical things for about as long. Right now I’m in vocational master school for precision machining. I also film things, and write about whatever I’m stuck on.
That’s me!
Binding a Wikipedia Article
The German Wikipedia article on the history of Timor-Leste, all 50,584 words of it, typeset and bound as a softcover book. A birthday present for a friend's classmate.
Bookbinding · Typography · Typst

Hermle UWF 851
My attempts at getting a 3-axis vertical machining center from the 90s to work.
Machining · Electronics

OpenVaporphase
An open hardware vapor phase oven for hackers and makers.
Hardware · Rust · Electronics

FS7 Extra User Buttons
Reversing the FS7 handle's protocol and emulating it with a WCH32 RISC-V microcontroller on a custom PCB.
Rust · PCB · Reverse engineering

Homemade Electric Cargo Bike
A cargo bike I built with a friend from a regular bike and steel tubing. It can carry a EURO pallet. Plans by Phil Vandelay.
Metalwork · Bikes

Smartification of a Label Printer
A Raspberry Pi Zero W and a Brother QL-800, giving the printer wifi, shortcut buttons and a web interface.
Python · Raspberry Pi

Gymhaan Tutoring Website
A full-stack project for my school to connect students with tutors.
React · Next.js

Soccerbot at Bohlebots
A semi-autonomous soccer robot. Took part in the RoboCup Junior Germany competition in 2022.
C · Rust · Robotics

Monster Price Scraping
Web scrapers and a mobile app to find the best deals on Monster Energy drinks.
Rust · Flutter
Blog
All posts- Binding a Wikipedia Article as a Softcover Book This week, my friend Jonathan randomly approached me with the idea of binding the German Wikipedia article on the history of Timor-Leste as a softcover book,...
- My Struggles Talking to An Old Piece Of Junk (Fanuc 0M) This February I became the proud owner of an old Hermle UWF 851 vertical machining center. An industrial CNC mill with tool changer and everything. I already...
- Reversing a Cinema Camera’s Peripherals Port Update 2025-12-28 I tried summarizing this blog post in a 5 minute lightning talk on 39C3. (being pretty nervous though haha) Original So recently (actually ...
Experience
- 2026–now Feinwerkmechanikermeisterschülerin Handwerkskammer Düsseldorf
- 2024–2026 Ausbildung Mechatronikerin Rheinbahn AG · 39 h/week
- 2024 Working Student DevOps Check24 Ferienwohnungen GmbH · Linux, PHP, Docker · 16 h/week
- 2023–2024 Working Student Full-Stack Development Biz Factory GmbH · React, PHP · 20 h/week
- 2023–2024 B. Sc. Computer Engineering Cologne University of Applied Sciences (dropped out)
- 2015–2023 Abitur Gymnasium Haan
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