Month: February 2026

Business Card scanning grid, scanning script, and some AI-supported post-processing (#P51)

Looks like we got another case of a DIY solution that competes with existing hardware. This time, it’s from my current quest of tidying up the rooms, especially in terms of old paper documents. Over the last 2 to 3 months, I have been scanning like a man madman and accumulated over 11000 pages plus quite a bunch more in terms of deduplication, e.g. realizing my main broker does still store ALL documents ever generated. Once fetched from their servers (in packets of 20 PDFs each…click click click), those replace printed documents right away, since my physical copies, either printed myself or sent by them via snail mail, are the exact same as the PDF – and those files are of course much smaller, labelled in a somewhat useful fashion, with proper original file dates, and at least partially searchable. […]


Poor man’s compliance testing: The EnderEMC (#P50)

Such a bold title, such vague blog post – I recently had the pleasure of comparing two very different systems for EMC pre-testing at the lab bench, and one of them gave me an idea.
The two systems were a

  • Y.I.C Technologies EMScanner / EMScanner+ / EMScannerR / EMScannerR+ (with an additional capital R, whatever SEO marketing genius came up with THAT idea), which is a base plate that has all of the signal pickup coils already integrated. Advantage being a fast scan since there’s no moving parts – with the drawback that the raster is fixed in X/Y but also Z direction, and the DUT more often than not needs to be placed upside down onto it.
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