Purpose of this Website#

I’m running this website on a voluntary basis. I do this because I’d like to spark others’ interest and fun in the areas of Mechanics, Electronics, and Information Technology. I focus particularly on the manufacture of items using CNC milling technologies, as well as on the setup, operation, deployment and maintenance of my server and its content. Occasional articles on electronics development and IT security round off the blog.

About ‘AI’#

This website is and will remain free of content generated by ‘AI’ tools. The articles are written by hand (I think you can tell) and I have no intention of changing this. For translations, however, I do use ‘AI’-based translation tools. In the early days up to Q1 2023, this applied exclusively to German articles, as I had been running the blog in English.

Since then, however, I have been writing in German and having the articles translated into English, because ‘AI’ finds this much easier and, in my opinion, produces better results. Nevertheless, I proofread every translated post and make every effort to publish high-quality and interesting articles.

The research and everything else involved on this blog is always done manually.

Consequently, for every minute of reading time, I have to invest roughly an hour’s work.

Where I do use “AI”, however, is as a “rubber ducky” for ideas and solutions that I wouldn’t have come up with myself due to a lack of perspective. Essentially, I use it as an advanced search engine. But even this output doesn’t feature in the articles.

Who is Schallbert?#

Image: A computer-drawn image of Schallbert, pixelized, and in 256 colors.
I’m Schallbert.1 Hobbyist maker and programmer, Electronics technician, Electrical Engineer. I have been (and am still) working in the industry for 10+ years both as hardware systems/ research engineer, project lead, software developer and scrum master so far. I have a passion for playing the Bass.

Interesting name. How did you get it?#

Schallbert is a portmanteau of the words Schall (a sound propagating through space) and Bert (a first name). Phonetically similar to Albert, I originally chose it as a player name: it is short and catchy, rare enough to work as a nickname without having to add numbers or glyphs, and, if you like, you can read into it a love of music and admiration for Albert Einstein.

Contact#

  1. Image courtesy of Likosdev ↩︎