Hampus Råsell

Passionate and curious creator

SCHOOL PRODJECT

RANDOM SET OF THE DAY

Random set of the day is a website I did as a school project to learn how to do web scraping. It scrapes from Brickset.com, a lego fan website, where every day a bot (Huwbot) chooses a random set of the day. My website scarpes the text and picture of the day’s set and displays them. Since the site's original creation Brickset added random part and minifigure of the day and I have updated my site to include them as well.

MICROCONTROLER PRODJECT

Lightsaber

I am a massive Star Wars fan and after completing a couple of microcontroller based projects I decided to make a lightsaber. It uses a Raspberry PI Pico as the controller and a neo-pixel ledstrip for the blade. It has a speaker to play sound when the saber is turned on, off and just being on. I also added the feature to be able to change the color of the blade like blue to red to yellow. The hilt is made with metal pipes, and uses 3d printed and scrap pieces for decorations.

I am a programmer based in Örebro, Sweden. I am an educated high school engineer specializing in website development and design.

I have been fascinated by technology and programming the majority of my life, mainly focusing on how video games are designed and works. So when I had to decide what orientation I wanted to choose for high school I chose Tech. There I focused mostly on web development but I also did some projects with microcontrollers and my graduation project was based on video game development. After I graduated I did not know what I wanted to do so I did an extra year of school where we worked directly with companies on our projects and when I finished I was a high school engineer.

While my education tended to focus on website design, as I mentioned before, I have dabbled in different kinds of programming fields, as you can see in the listed projects above. My main passion is creating stuff, I am a big fan of lego and have been collecting it for most of my life, and I design my own MOC’s (My Own Creations). Programming is just another way for me to be creative and make stuff, and as a fast learner I can learn what I need for every project.