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Pi Console centered in front of a futuristic Utopian city-scape

Building a Dynamic Console UI with .NET 10, MQTT, and Node-RED

Posted at February 21, 2026 by cerkit in Programming ⋅ Tech

Dynamic UI system using .NET 10, Spectre.Console library, and MQTT messages to drive a Console UI.

Cerkit-bot in the Adobe Character Animator UI

The “Digital Voice” Robot: My Custom Character Animator Workflow

Posted at February 2, 2026 by cerkit in AI ⋅ Art ⋅ Programming ⋅ Tech

Lately, I’ve been looking for ways to blend my background as a software engineer with my creative projects. I recently built a custom robot puppet for Adobe Character Animator, and the process involved a unique “AI-assisted texturing” technique, a waveform-based mouth…

Mercury FPGA with abstract "echoes" emanating from inside

Project Skyverb Part 2: Implementing the Basic Echo

Posted at January 29, 2026 by cerkit in Electronics ⋅ FPGA ⋅ Hardware ⋅ Music ⋅ Programming ⋅ Tech

Implementing a digital delay on an FPGA using Verilog

Mercury 2 Baseboard FPGA with musical notes surrounding it

Project Skyverb Part 1: Building the Digital Wire

Posted at January 29, 2026 by cerkit in Electronics ⋅ FPGA ⋅ Hardware ⋅ Music ⋅ Programming

Exploring the use of FPGAs as audio processors (reverb, delay, etc.)

CW Companion: Engineering High-Fidelity Morse Code Analysis

Posted at December 21, 2025 by cerkit in Ham Radio ⋅ Programming ⋅ Tech

See full-size image View Windows Infographic Get the code on GitHub cw-companion for macOS cw-companion for Windows For amateur radio operators and CW (Continuous Wave) enthusiasts, the bridge between modern software-defined radio (SDR) and traditional Morse code analysis has often…

Futuristic city showing a macBook with a retro BASIC program on the screen.

Retro Z80/Z180 Emulator – Part II

Posted at December 20, 2025 by cerkit in Programming

Dive into the architecture of the Retro180Emulator v2.0. This case study explores the SC126 Z180 motherboard, MMU banking logic, and how modern design patterns like state persistence and ‘Smart Injection’ bridge the gap for legacy systems.

macBook running retro emulator with a BASIC program on the green screen.

Retro Z80/Z180 Emulator for macOS

Posted at December 20, 2025 by cerkit in Electronics ⋅ Hardware ⋅ Programming

To understand how hardware and software commingle to create a functional computer, we will analyze the Retro180Emulator, a project designed to emulate the Zilog Z180 microprocessor architecture on macOS.

Shader Studio – An AI Powered Metal Shader Language editor

Posted at December 14, 2025 by cerkit in AI ⋅ Programming ⋅ Tech

View full size Get the Code Code available on GitHub Under the Hood: How Shader Studio Brings Code to Life Welcome to cerkit blog. Today, we are taking a deep dive into the architecture of Shader Studio, a native macOS…

New WordPress Blog Engine

Posted at October 27, 2025 by cerkit in Blog ⋅ Programming

I’ve converted my Astro Static Text blog engine over to a hosted WordPress site.

Building a Weather Display on the PyPortal Titano

Posted at October 4, 2025 by Michael Earls in Electronics ⋅ Programming

I recently built a weather display for my Adafruit PyPortal Titano using CircuitPython. This project fetches live weather data from OpenWeatherMap and displays the current temperature, condition, and details like “feels like” temperature and wind. In this blog entry, I’ll…