Catégorie : The Journey

September 2025. After a very instructive two weeks Summer School in Fribourg offered by the Peel, it was time to begin a gap year where I’d finaly be full time on my MIDI controller project! I came back to La Fabrique and started working on an electromagnetic compatible design for my printed circuit boards (thanks…

January 2025. Unexpectedly, I was honored to be awarded first prize in the entrepreneur student category of the Incubateur Lorrain project call. This award was a (very) big surprise, and it helped me cover my prototyping expenses. Less than two months after (even bigger surpise!), I received the jury’s award of the CentraleSupelec Foundation grant…

September 2024. A new university year begins, this time on CentraleSupélec’s campus in Metz. I had the opportunity to choose my very early-stage MIDI controller idea as my main project for the year (Huge thanks to my tutor, Jean Maufoy!). I’ve been coached by Antoine Krys from the Peel, (a local structure that helps students…

February 2024. For this new design, I had a lot of ideas: an OLED screen, a big PCB (instead of a mess of wires), multiplexers, debounce filters for the encoders, silicone push-buttons with integrated LEDs… Spoiler: not everything worked as expected! I learned a valuable lesson: the more complex the design, the more problems you…

September 2023. Long story short: as an engineering student, I spent to much time playing guitar and composing instead of studying maths. Therefore, I had to repeat the second part of my junior year. Instead of doing « nothing » during the first semester, I started an internship at La Fabrique, a prototyping laboratory. Learning electronic and…