Hi, welcome to my site! My name is Kevin Fronczak and I'm an Analog Circuit Designer with experience working on all types of sensors including rolling and global shutter CMOS image sensors, capacitive touch and fingerprint, as well as display drivers. I have a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY.
A few months back I converted my desktop into a home media server using UnRAID. The details for that deserve its own post, but suffice to say that one reason for going this route is to take back c... Read more
Recently I’ve been quite interested in biomedical sensors, namely Photoplethysmogram (or PPG) sensors. Essentially, a PPG takes advantage of the optical properties of skin to measure the rate of a... Read more
Recently I decided to mess around with my Home Assistant setup and accidentally borked my MySQL installation on my Raspberry Pi 3. Getting it up and running again was a bit of a pain, so I decide... Read more
I like knowing what’s happening on my home network, especially with how many things I have that I rely on (PiHole, Home-Assistant, etc). One thing I’ve been missing is the ability to check for unw... Read more
Why Jekyll? Before moving to Jekyll I had been using a Wordpress blog hosted on paid Namecheap servers. The thing is, my blog is pretty much entirely static so that set-up was mostly useless. Al... Read more