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TheTechTive
Engineering my way into robotics.
A public engineering notebook — robotics, embedded systems, and the road to a German Ausbildung, documented in the open. Every entry here is real: what I learned, what broke, and what I built.
Status // live
What's happening now
Current goal
Get accepted into a Mechatroniker/in or Elektroniker für Automatisierungstechnik Ausbildung in Germany (target: Aug–Oct 2027).
Currently learning
German (B2 target by December 2026) + STM32 bare-metal programming.
Current project
Catchbox — a solo Android-first quick-capture SaaS app.
Current focus
Balancing daily German study with embedded systems practice and freelance income work.
Location
Based in Iran, working remotely.
Latest milestone
Shipped the Catchbox landing page and locked in pricing.
Last updated 2026-08-18
Log // short-form
Latest timeline
Set up TheTechTive — this site is now my public engineering notebook.
Locked pricing for Catchbox: €1.99/mo, €8.99/yr, €14.99 lifetime after a 7-day trial.
Catchbox project page →Finished mapping a 163-day study plan to hit German B2 by December.
Wired up the first ESP32 sensor test rig — reading raw analog values over serial.
Full journal entry →Spent 2 hours debugging a memory issue in a C pointer exercise. Finally clicked.
Read the blog post →Portfolio // in progress
Current projects
ESP32 Sensor Rig
ActiveA ground-up analog sensor pipeline on ESP32 — from a noisy raw ADC reading to a stable, multi-sensor serial data stream.
Catchbox
ActiveA solo, Android-first quick-capture SaaS app — swipe in, capture a thought, route it to Notion, Trello, or Telegram without breaking flow.
Notebook // daily
Latest journal entries
Writing // extracted
Latest blog posts
My Method for Learning Embedded Systems Without a Classroom
The self-directed learning loop I use for embedded systems — how I sequence topics, what I build to prove I actually understand something, and where I keep getting stuck.
How I Started Understanding C Pointers
The mental model that finally made pointers click, after weeks of only half-getting it — plus the exercises that forced the concept in.