emmanuel koutsouklakis

hardware, firmware software and gateware
ibdp student
advanced amateur radio licensee (vk2emm)

currently doing contracting for:

mulga mesh morse micro
open to more

work

qdsl

a dsl to deterministically make unique exam-style self-verifying math questions on the fly. made for a previous startup after months of trying to get slow and expensive llms to generate questions that were correct and actually good

fieldnotes

monthly meetup for creative highschool students building things i co-host with sanni sintonen

hardware

pcb design, gateware, and random unfinished ideas

150m-parameter llm custom llm currently on hold because my mac crashes whenever i try to pretrain it
weather station pcbs sensors, a micro and telemetry that has to sit outside without power for a week. designed as a favour for my science teacher with 20 boards handed out to students within 3 weeks
direct-conversion sdr a direct-conversion sdr built with just a ft usb driver, the smallest lattice fpga i could find and a ~100 msps adc from ti
sstv transcoder slow-scan images encoded & decoded in rust, compiled to wasm. worked during a live demo on an on-air channel
traillink a 4-fsk packet link over an fm handheld built in 6 hours for a hackathon hosted by blackbird. build log
mlcc dc bias measuring how much capacitance ceramics lose under bias to research ferroelectrics

writing

how to build a llm july 2026 traillink, an amateur radio data link july 2026