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Mike Ayles

mikeayles.com

Blog & Portfolio - Electronics & Embedded Systems Engineer

FPGA / HDLEmbedded / microcontrollersAI / MLElectronics

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34 from 19 Nov 2025 to 10 Aug 2026
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weekly (34 in the last year)
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2026 21

  1. Taalas-Style On-Chip Weights on a $250 FPGA: a Language Model at 60k tok/s
  2. On-Chip LLM: Sampling Without Asking
  3. On-Chip LLM: Inside the Chip
  4. On-Chip LLM: Serving an FPGA to Strangers
  5. On-Chip LLM: War Stories and the Method
  6. Are you sure OneDrive has got your back(up)?
  7. Banger: A Local Photo Culler That Doesn't Touch the Cloud
  8. Does RAG Actually Help AI Coding Tools?
  9. What's Actually in a Litre of Diesel
  10. It's Just Weights
  11. goformersearch: Vector Search in Pure Go
  12. goformer: BERT Inference in Pure Go
  13. Bitwise Cloud: Hosted Search for Embedded Documentation
  14. CO2 Is the Wrong Number: Greenhouse Gas Equivalents for Road Freight
  15. Every Euro VI Truck Has a Chemical Plant Bolted Underneath
  16. The Physics and Economics of Moving 44 Tonnes at 56mph
  17. The Hydrogen Truck Problem Isn't the Truck
  18. 50kWh In, 33kWh Out: On-Vehicle Hydrogen Generation
  19. Playing DOOM in OpenSCAD at 10-20 FPS
  20. Zookeeper: Pokédex for Real Zoo Animals
  21. Phaestus: Compiler for Physical Products

2025 13

  1. TOKN: Token-Optimised KiCad Notation
  2. KiDoom: Running DOOM on PCB Traces
  3. ScopeDoom: DOOM on an Oscilloscope via Sound Card
  4. bitwise-mcp: MCP Server for Embedded Documentation
  5. CircuitSnips.com: Building a Thingiverse for KiCad
  6. Engine Simulator: High-Fidelity Diesel Engine Thermodynamics
  7. Claude Code Comm Bot: VS Code Extension for Discord Integration
  8. Fuel Injector Characterizer: Peak & Hold Validation System
  9. HIT Impact Android App: Head Impact Monitoring
  10. MQTT Duration Trigger: Smart Button Press Detection
  11. KiCad Netlist Tool
  12. Supplement Stack Saver: Budget-Friendly Alternatives
  13. TheDuck.chat