Noah Rahbek Bigum Hansen

Noah Rahbek Bigum Hansen

Mechanical Engineering student at Aarhus University. Developer and maintainer of Tungsten. Top-25 national Tetr.io player.

Blog Posts

Tungsten

I built Tungsten because I got tired of the friction between writing math and doing math. If you write LaTeX regularly, you know the frustration. You are deep in a flow state, writing an assignment or paper in LaTeX. Suddenly, you need to verify a result – perhaps checking a derivative, solving a complex integral or multiplying two matrices. The workflow breaks immediately. You Alt-Tab away to a browser, a heavy GUI, or a REPL. You translate the equation from...

Why I'm Building a Distortion Pedal

Cupcake Bakery-Shop Distortion Pedal

I was blown away, when I got my first serious practice amp–a Blackstar ID:Core 40. Out-of-the-box it came with five distinct voices from Clean to Crunch with some nice overdrive-options in between. I spent countless hours twisting the tone knobs and cycling through presets chasing the perfect distortion sound I heard in my head but couldn't quite capture. Even after dialing in what seemed like a great tone, I found something was always missing: it either lacked punch, felt too...