• 💬 I'm into
  • open source, especially hardware: cofounder of the echOpen association in 2014, and since then promoting open-source ultrasound hardware to give affordable, accessible tools to students and researchers
  • retroengineering, and understanding how stuff works
  • futures-gazing
  • learning (big fan of MOOCs too =)
• 👯 Looking to collaborate on open projects, AI/LLMs, ultrasound stuff. You'll see my repos ;)
• 🌱 I got back into coding in... the early 90s, testing BASIC on the Apple ][ my father used to write his thesis. Since then I've tested a few languages and broken a few things, but hopefully built more.

Latest stable release: pic0rick ⭐ 113, an rp2040-based pulse-echo acquisition board.

In the works

• ultr4rick - The higher-power successor to pic0rick: RP2350B, 60 MS/s ADC, bipolar HV pulser, 8-channel HV mux, on-board envelope detection
• rp569 - An RP2350B paired with a WCH CH569W to stream high-speed acquisitions to the host over USB 3.0 (v1.0 routed, JLCPCB files ready, firmware untested on hardware)
• minus - A minimal, single-channel, low-cost pulse-echo platform, designed as a conference-workshop badge (early design)
• wulrick - Side-by-side technical comparison of pic0rick and ETH Zurich's WULPUS wearable probe

Software & libraries

• pyusbus ⭐ 31 - Python APIs for USB ultrasound probes
• us_rf_processing ⭐ 31 - B-mode ultrasound image reconstruction from RF data
• openultrasoundprojects ⭐ 28 - Curated collection of open-source ultrasound projects
• pyUProbe1 - Python library for uProbe-1 ultrasound probe acquisitions

🚧 Backlog

• A PIC32A ultrasound board ;)
• A rp2040/FT600 board

Designs certified by the Open Source Hardware Association:

• awesome-latticeFPGAs ⭐ 363 - Curated list of Lattice FPGA boards using open tools
• lattice-verilog-projects - Knowledge base of 200+ reusable open gateware cores for ULX3S and other Lattice boards (website)
• frugalai-challenge_pico - TinyML inference on the RP2040 microcontroller
• Futures - Substack newsletter link management and analysis
• ultrasound-patents - Mining and analysis of ultrasound technology patents

🤖 Experiments with Claude

• E32Mud - An ESP32 MUD to play on a portal, nice HTML page, for a persisting world served on WiFi by the ESP32

🦞 Experiments with NanoClaw

• OrmuzOsint - OSINT toolkit for detecting dark vessels in the Strait of Hormuz using Sentinel-1 SAR and AIS fusion
• learn-bangla - Bengali sentence dataset and interactive flashcard practice site
• Resume_RDF_update - Convert CVs into structured RDF/OWL knowledge graphs using the ResumeRDF ontology

The whole list is at Clawd.

• barcodebattler - BarClode Battler, a browser remake of the 1991 Barcode Battler II: scan any barcode, get a card, fight (play)
• pikl - Pickomino rules, strategies and Monte Carlo simulations (live simulation)

Papers, preprints & reports

• 2026 · Accelerating the Transition to Green Building Neighbourhoods: A New Decision Support Platform · ABC2: Journal of Architecture, Building, Construction, and Cities · with 10 co-authors
• 2026 · Placemaking Maptivity: A Serious Game to Facilitate Sustainable Urban Planning · Sustainability · with 3 co-authors
• 2024 · A rp2040-based ultrasound pulse-echo acquisition device · Zenodo
• 2024 · Interview: Ultrasound pulse-echo device · Front Matter
• 2024 · Using Generative AI to accelerate Green Building Neighbourhoods assessments using the ISO 37100 series and LLMs. · Zenodo
• 2024 · Using Large Language Models for a standard assessment mapping for sustainable communities · arXiv
• 2022 · Review of Current Simple Ultrasound Hardware Considerations, Designs, and Processing Opportunities · Journal of Open Hardware · with 4 co-authors
• 2021 · An opensource max14866 development board · Zenodo
• 2021 · lit3rick: an up5k ultrasound pulse-echo device · Zenodo
• 2021 · pyusbus: opening usb ultrasound probes · Zenodo
• 2019 · un0rick : open-source fpga board for single element ultrasound imaging · Zenodo
• 2017 · Arduino-Like Development Kit for Single-Element Ultrasound Imaging · Journal of Open Hardware