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latest projects - mitxela.com is a personal blog at mitxela.com about hardware and programming. Since 2016, 113 different Hacker News readers have linked it 154 times, most often “Stylophone Business Card”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-24, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 5 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link mitxela.com for its hardware and electronics projects, such as clocks, LED earrings, fluid-simulation pendants and retro consoles. Commenters praise the write-ups and videos as informative, generous and well produced.
- Recommended for · 5 comments
- One commenter says the author's write-ups are informative and enjoyable, with a lovely voice. Others call the videos well produced and the Mitxela article on CH
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Stylophone Business Card10 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2018-08-07
- Thermal Paper Polaroid6 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2018-04-06
- Flash Synth (2019)5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2019-10-20
- Flip Fluid on Flip Dots5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2026-09-24
- Fluid Simulation Pendant5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2025-01-13
- Precision Clock Mk IV4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-05-31
- Melting KiCad4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-04-21
- Tiny Volumetric Display4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-12-02
- The smallest and worst HDMI display4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-03-31
- /rants3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-12-02
What Hacker News says?
similar project from december (using an oscilloscope) https://mitxela.com/projects/console
Comment linking /projects/console
on “Show HN: A retro video game console I've been working on in my free time”Submitted The smallest and worst HDMI display as a story · 969 points
HN discussionI actually found him originally from his incredible clock: https://mitxela.com/projects/precision_clock_mk_iv Which was posted here a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44144750 I'm a sucker for a novel clock concept, and the level of detail he's operating at is beautiful to witness. I actually have a collection of cool clocks here: https://lynkmi.com/oisin/Clocks
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on “Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation”Submitted LED Matrix Earrings as a story · 615 points
HN discussionFor those that want more details on how the software works, this guy goes into a bit more detail for his version Fluid simulation pendant https://mitxela.com/projects/fluid-pendant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jis1MC5Tm8k
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on “Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation”Submitted Precision Clock Mk IV as a story · 552 points
HN discussionIf you like this, you'll also love Mitxela's fluid simulation pendant [0], and likely all of his work! I'm consistently astounded by how informative and enjoyable his stuff his. He shares so much, so freely and it's so well produced, with a lovely voice to boot. Inspirational! Watch his vids, read his write-ups or both! We need more people like this. [0] https://mitxela.com/projects/fluid-pendant
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on “Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation”Submitted Fluid Simulation Pendant as a story · 501 points
HN discussionI feel like this would definitely be possible. I was reminded of https://mitxela.com/projects/kiloboot , which uses an ENC28J60 for the ethernet stuff. I feel like you could probably quite easily bitbang SPI, given it's quite a forgiving protocol, just dedicate a couple of addresses in the memory space to interact directly with the bus (maybe with a separate shift register chip if you want to make things a bit easie…
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on “Blog hosted on a Nintendo Wii”Submitted Flip Fluid on Flip Dots as a story · 398 points
HN discussionI will declare my self successful in life if my website looks like the author's https://mitxela.com/projects page
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on “LED Matrix Earrings”Submitted LED Industrial Piercing as a story · 340 points
HN discussion> It's an impressive electronics project, but is it an earring anyone would want to wear? Are you kidding me? Just about every STEM gal would pay a pretty penny for a set of those! The industrial[0] is a bit too obscure, the led-ring variant[1] is a little underwhelming, but a full LED matrix? Absolutely breathtaking. [0]: https://mitxela.com/projects/scaffold [1]: https://mitxela.com/projects/charliestar
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on “LED Matrix Earrings”Submitted Thermal Paper Polaroid as a story · 340 points
HN discussionI didn't see that bit, but the layout image[0] shows very large cuts in the ground plane with traces running right over the middle of them, especially between U8 and U7. There's plenty of space here to add some ground traces between them, but that hasn't been done. > you never really know until you get it tested. I suspect they haven't given the lack of a CE marking on the board. As an aside that bothers me a bit gi…
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on “Precision Clock Mk IV”- po · 2025-04-25
Submitted Eurorack Knob Idea as a story · 322 points
HN discussion I assume you already have the Morse key USB keyboard? ( https://mitxela.com/projects/morse_code_usb_keyboard_mk_ii )
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on “Will MySpace ever lose its monopoly? (2007)”Submitted Melting KiCad as a story · 278 points
HN discussionDirect link: https://mitxela.com/rants#:~:text=Spare%20Time%20and%20Hard%...
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on “Fluid Simulation Pendant”Submitted DDC OLED (2022) as a story · 199 points
HN discussionI of course don't know your specific circumstances, but nonetheless I'd like to recommend you the author's own take on their work described in a rant titled "Spare Time and Hard Work". It's available here: https://mitxela.com/rants (unfortunately It's not possible to link directly to it so you'll need to scroll a little bit down to find it) I personally like coming back to it from time to time, since it's inspiring…
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on “Fluid Simulation Pendant”Submitted Programming a CH32v003 with light as a story · 148 points
HN discussionYeap, Tim is some serious maker/tinkerer/creator. Besides the very good hardware things he makes, there are also some other software stuff: https://mitxela.com/other/
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on “Fluid Simulation Pendant”Submitted Games Console as a story · 134 points
HN discussionAnother cool business card PCB project: https://mitxela.com/projects/stylocard https://youtu.be/zHVrY_xLM3c
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on “My business card runs Linux”Submitted Plotting as a story · 55 points
HN discussionThis is gorgeous! I knew you could get different colo(u)red PCBs but had no idea about transparent solder masks. Even more reason to "Melt your circuit boards" video: https://youtu.be/euJgtLcWWyo blog: https://mitxela.com/projects/melting_kicad
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on “./watch”Submitted Flash Synth (2019) as a story · 28 points
HN discussionAdafruit Feather 32u4 Bluefruit LE has an Atmega32u4 (same as Arduino), LiPoly charger and BTLE built in for $30. I'm cheap, so soon I'm going to have a go at reflashing a $3 HC06 module with the RN-42 firmware [1], and using that with a $3 Arduino Pro Micro and a $1 TP4056 Charger board for the same capabilities but messier. I always learn more by messing around though. [1] https://mitxela.com/projects/bluetooth_hi…
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on “Why we won't be selling Genuino or Arduino any more”Submitted Simsim Pendant as a story · 17 points
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