Influencing People (Essay)
“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which” writes George Orwell in his novella Animal Farm, published in 1945. […]
Author: Timo Denk
Zürich-based Software Engineer with Google and Founder of Denk Development. Opinions are my own. I am interested in data science, software engineering, 3d-printing, arts, music, microcontrollers, and sports.
3D-Printed Violin
In early 2021 I built my very first instrument – a 3d-printed violin! This blog post starts with a seven-minute video outlining the creation process. The video also features a professional violinist who tested the printed instrument. Additionally, in text […]
Calculating the Exact Finger Positions for a String Instrument
Playing string instruments like violin, viola, cello, or double bass requires the musician to place their finger at specific positions on the instrument’s fingerboard to play the desired tones. The musicians memorize the approximate finger positions and perform very quick, […]
All My 3D Prints of 2020
On the occasion of completing orbit #23 around the Sun, I purchased a 3D printer in June 2020. Everybody remotely close to me knows about it, because I just keep on talking about it. Quite frankly, it was one of […]
My Favorite Papers at COLING’2020
In December 2020 I attended COLING’2020 (the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics) to present “Contextual BERT” at the TextGraphs-14 workshop and to learn about the latest advancements in natural language processing (NLP). This year the conference was not held […]
Is There Even A Good One? Matching Voting Systems With Logical Requirements
I recently discovered that voting systems are an intriguing field to study. In everyday life we often encounter situations in which a vote takes place, e.g., when agreeing on which movie to watch, which restaurant to dine at in a […]
A Miniature Grand Piano
This is a short documentation of a recent 3d-printing project of mine. It is a miniature grand piano, at 1:10 the scale of a Yamaha C6 grand piano. The blog contains a video exhibiting the piano, explains the creation process […]
3D-Printed Solar System
Here is project #2 with the new 3D printer, just like the Berlin Wall it’s an artsy one: the eight planets of our Solar System scaled down by a factor of about 109. This post contains a photo gallery of […]
Berlin Wall Miniature
Every morning I pass by the Berlin Wall in the area of the East Side Gallery and have started to appreciate this unique piece of history with the diverse paintings on it. The first project with my recently acquired 3D […]
Logging Piano Keystrokes With a Serverless Backend
Over the past months I have been working on a private project which is about logging piano keystrokes. The idea is to have a Raspberry Pi cable-connected to a digital piano and have it read the piano’s MIDI signal. While […]