TheStaticTurtle

About me

Hey, I'm Samuel, I'm a 24 years old maker. I like computers / electronics & hardware design / radio communication / space / 3D Design and audiovisual stuff. I currently live in Alsace, France and while I like French, I prefer using English when I can. If you want to learn more, just scroll a bit. If you wish to see my recent work / current projects, you might want to go to my blog.

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Experiences

Professional

• Sep, 2022 → Long-term contract as a Technical solution developer at Biotrial NEUROSCIENCE (Corelab)
• Sep, 2021 → 1 Year for my bachelor's degree at Biotrial NEUROSCIENCE (Corelab)
• Jul, 2021 → 3 Weeks summer job at Biotrial NEUROSCIENCE (Corelab)
• Apr, 2021 → 2 Months HND mandatory internship at Biotrial NEUROSCIENCE (Corelab)

Education

• (2021 - 2022) Bachelor of science in Administration and Network security (University of Haute Alsace )
• (2019 - 2021) HND in Computer science (IUT Belfort Montbéliard )
• (2016 - 2019) High school (STI2D-SIN technological course) (Lycée Theodore Deck )

General

• Part of the stage sound and lighting crew at AFSR
• Video production and general technical aid at my local choir

Technologies

I've spent some time creating a page that contains a non-exhaustive list of the various technologies & hardware I worked with at some point in my personal, professional or associative projects and activities.

Interests

Audio / Video

I regularly participate in the audio, lighting and video crew at the backstage of concerts / events. I have some notions of audio mixing and simple lighting design, a fairly advanced knowledge of video production and with a strong understanding of networking and signal flow.

I generaly like to learn new system by getting my hand dirty, example of which include building a bi-directional SDI to fiber converter or reverse-engineering Ultranet

Hardware

Aside from software development, I also enjoy doing firmware development and hardware design. I'm completely self-taught in this domain, and I'm learning project after project of the mistakes I make. I've worked on all kinds of stuff and doing these projects helps me gain a good understanding of the good practices in schematic drawing and PCB design.

3D-Modeling

From high school to right now, I've learned plenty of things in CAD and 3D printing. Since I own a 3D printer, I had to learn a lot of this stuff on my own. I design almost everything myself, like basic enclosures, to the hardest design that I ever made: bone conduction glasses!

Self-hosting & Automation

One of the things I do the most is managing and experimenting on my own network infrastructure at home. I run a complete network including a domain, SSO, multiple hypervisors, isolated vlans, storage, monitoring, etc….

I run multiple services that help me to organize and automate my daily life.

Space & Radio communications

I'm a big space nerd, especially space radio communications and rf signals in general; I've received multiple images from meteorological satellites such as the NOAA and METEOR satellites series and planning to receive more advanced ones. I've previously received an ARISS^Link SSTV Award. I'm currently on my way studying to get my Amateur Radio License to be able to transmit and bounce my way around satellites like QO-100 .