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Welcome to my channel where I show you all kinds of DIY projects, and some other stuff as well. Come along to be inspired, perhaps pick up some tips & tricks or just be entertained! 😎

Many of my projects happens in my garage. It's a multi-purpose garage as it is my workshop and my YouTube studio. Many of my projects are actually me improving my garage. It will also be a lot of motorcycle fixer-upper videos for a while, since I have several bikes lined up.


KI Hestad

One pretty and two magnificent builds 😁

Very different bikes, what would you have?

(Sorry for the typo on the picture, it was supposed to be pretty but the brain did not work at the moment)

1 week ago (edited) | [YT] | 32

KI Hestad

The first trip of the year in the Elefant adventures series had a wet start. It has been 5 hours with rain, out of 7 hours total ride time so far. One hour remaining today, it's still raining. The good news is: it's gonna stop raining when I arrive 🥴

1 week ago | [YT] | 52

KI Hestad

What have I forgotten? That's what's going through my mind right now 😅 Elefant Adventure series season 3 is starting right now! Instead of fixing the remaining issues in my motorcycle, and then going on an adventure trip - I decided to do it the other way around this year 😁

1 week ago | [YT] | 26

KI Hestad

The first Ctrl MC device that looks like a real product! I used some of the dev boards I had and made a canbus sniffer. Tested it with SavvyCan and it works nicely. The system uses standardized canbus protocols (both CAN 2.0 and FD CAN) and a canbus message DBC configuration file. I have mostly used Kvaser DB Editor to configure canbus messages. The open source Python system: Cantools are used to generate the C helper methods for packing and unpacking messages from the system.

The system uses well established standards, making it highly compatible with other systems, reliable and efficient. This looks very promising!

2 weeks ago (edited) | [YT] | 76

KI Hestad

Running a stress-test today. The turn signals have been blinking for one hour so far, and they are still in sync 😁 I considered for a second to set up a live stream: testing the Ctrl MC system minute-by-minute 😂

3 weeks ago (edited) | [YT] | 89

KI Hestad

Hi, I have been pretty busy coding for the Ctrl MC system lately, not much to share on video, but getting close to a fully working software now🤞I did however take a break from the computer today, and made some progress on my Honda cafe racer. Made a short video about it - take a look here:
youtube.com/shorts/Q1GJxpk-YL...

1 month ago | [YT] | 47

KI Hestad

Soon ready to test two of the I/O modules with canbus communication. It definitely takes time to crimp on all these connectors 😝

3 months ago | [YT] | 68

KI Hestad

Does it look to be OK? 🙄 Using almost all the pins on the 48 pin STM32-G4 microcontroller for the Ctrl MC input/output unit. Not sure if it will work yet, starting the coding now🤞

3 months ago | [YT] | 31

KI Hestad

Soon ready to test smart high-side power switches for the Ctrl MC system. The hardware part is done, next is to do some system development

3 months ago | [YT] | 28

KI Hestad

My first official live stream kicks off tomorrow: Friday, Feb 20th. A mystery guest might be dropping by... any ideas who it could be?😏

youtube.com/live/n2POgp8H4sg?feature=share

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