Welcome to the website of Matthias Quintern!

Here you can find information about my projects! There's something of everything: music, computer science, physics, electrical engineering... well, that's pretty much it. So if you're interested in any of it, have a look around!

About me


DIY 8-Bit Computer: Overvoltage Protection

I recently fried my 65C02 processor and the 1 MHz oscillator of my 8-bit computer, because the power supply was still set to 12 volts from another project. I took this event as an opportunity to build a simple overvoltage protection for the computer.

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DIY 8-Bit Computer: Continued! ca65 and SPI

I could finally invest some time into my 6502 computer project again, which I started in 2021. I ported the code to a different assembler, ca65, and connected the computer to an Arduino with a serial connection.

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Bachelor's thesis

In September 2023 I handed in my bachelor thesis at the Chair of Functional Materials at the TUM Physics Department. The aim of the thesis was to distinguish different materials/objects with triboelectric nanogenerators using machine learning.

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Material recognition using Triboelectric Nanogenerator-based sensing and machine learning

This is part of my bachelor's thesis and my first hands-on experience with machine learning. We use a triboelectric nanogenerator as a vertical pressure sensor and push different materials against it. A machine learning model is then trained on the data and can then tell which material the nanogenerator is touching.

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Software: Build-system for static websites

A build system based on make and a preprocessor which I created for my website. It supports markdown, SASS and much more.

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Software: Website analytics program

A program that creates daily analytics pages for a website that is served using nginx.

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Software: Lyrics Embedder

A command line program that scrapes lyrics from genius.com or azlyrics.com and embeds that in your audio files. It is written in python and can operate on single songs or whole libraries.

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DIY 8-bit computer

A homemade 8-bit computer based on the 6502-microprocessor, inspired by Ben Eater.

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C-Rhapsody

My first real song project: a rhapsodie with guitars, keys, bass and drums.

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