about
Software by day. Hardware on nights and weekends.
I am Juan Villa, a software engineer in Austin, Texas. Ne0x is where I document the projects that happen after work, after dinner, and often after realizing the bench needs one more cable I definitely owned yesterday.
I graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a degree in Computer Engineering, spend my daytime hours building software, and spend nights and weekends acting suspiciously like a hardware engineer. I am also a happy father of an elementary-aged girl, which means some of this work happens in beautifully unreasonable time slots.
What I Tinker With
The projects here cross hardware, firmware, software, 3D printing, resin printing, CNC, pick-and-place assembly, soldering, reflow, RF, sensors, power measurement, and the tooling needed to make those things less mysterious.
I like projects where the software has to answer to the physical world. A current trace, a bad solder joint, an enclosure tolerance, or an antenna that refuses to care about optimism will usually teach faster than a design doc.
What Ne0x Is For
Ne0x is a lab notebook for personal software and hardware work. Posts should explain what was built, what broke, what was measured, and which assumptions got escorted out of the lab with a polite but firm graph.
The goal is useful engineering writing with receipts: professional, direct, lightly comedic, and never dressed up like a product brochure.