Welcome!
My name is Marius Montebaur and I studied computer science at TU Berlin in Germany. I’m using this website to show some of the different projects I worked on or just stuff I’m interested in.
1 Latest Updates
1.1 October 2023
I spent some time in localizing the EDL21 Control iOS app to make it available in English as well. I automated this process and developed a system (L10n-GPT) that can help with generating high quality user interface translation based on Chat-GPT.
1.2 April 2023
No update in a long time but now I’ve decided to put some Mac quick tips online on how to use macOS efficiently. I’m using those features since years without even thinking about it but I learned that other people might not have “workflow improvement” as a hobby :D Therefore I created this list of features I find especially useful.
I plan to extend this list in the future.
1.3 December 2021
I was pretty busy this year with work and my master’s thesis and that’s why there hasn’t been too many (or any) updates lately. But during my christmas holiday I built a new rack-mounted but still silent home server. There is an article and a video showing the build process of this home server.
1.4 June 2021
In an effort to make some of my older projects public, I wrote an article about an indoor mapping robot that a fellow student and I developed some time ago as part of a semester project in university.
1.5 May 2021
This website was previously hosted on AWS but this month I moved to Uberspace. They’re based in Germany and I wrote down why I switched providers in the last section of my article about this website.
1.6 March 2021
Another semester of university went by and this semester I spent some time working on a project that aimed to extend a keypoint detection algorithm for robotic manipulation. Info on the approach along with the evaluation of the project’s results are available in the article on keypoint detection on occluded objects.
1.7 January 2021
To learn a bit about enterprise hardware I bought an old Dell PowerEdge R210 II server for cheap on eBay. The problems I faced while setting up this machine for the first time are discussed here.
1.8 December 2020
Uploaded my old website with some projects I worked on while I was in school, e.g. controlling wireless sockets with an Arduino. (Legacy website only in German and without dark mode).
1.9 November 2020
I started to organize my dotfiles and wrote a combination of bash and python scripts to move and resize windows in Linux systems and automatically bind this functionality to keyboard shortcuts in Gnome:
1.10 October 2020
Added a post on my findings while trying to print waterproof hose connectors for my balcony watering system:
My buddy Kai from university started an interesting blog about his master’s thesis where he’s dealing with remote image sensing applications.
1.11 September 2020
Now look at this; some projects really reached a state which I would call ‘finished’ for now. New projects:
1.12 August 2020
I’m currently working on an automatic watering system for flowerpots which will extend the capabilites of the gardening server I developed earlier. Updates follow as soon as something is working :D
2 Source Code:
For most of the projects the source code can be found in my GitHub.
3 Contact:
mail (at) montebaur (dot) tech