// physicist, builder, occasional over-engineer
Joseph
El-Forzli
notebook
Serial tinkerer, passionate about physics, mechatronics and informatics, documenting stuff I build.
// now
- updated:
- 2026-10-22
- building:
- ARTUR, a 6-DoF chess robot
- writing:
- ARTUR elbow & shoulder, baby tokamak
// toolbox
- tools
- Git / GitHub · Linux / bash · LaTeX
- computation
- numerical integration · Monte Carlo · FFT methods · N-body · field & circuit solvers · DFT · chemical kinetics · regression & optimisation
- physics
- statistical physics · quantum mechanics · electromagnetism · lattice QCD · optics
- hands-on
- electronics design · soldering · high voltage · CAD · 3D printing · stepper drivers · sensors & data acquisition · radio telemetry
// projects
13 projects
René the boozer
A tiny live LLM coded from scratch and trained on books from François René de Chateaubriand.
// ml · informatics · literature⬢
René the boozer
A tiny live LLM coded from scratch and trained on books from François René de Chateaubriand.
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Electric Cloud Chamber
Building of an electronic Cloud Chamber from scratch to detect high energy particles.
// diy · physics⬢
Electric Cloud Chamber
Building of an electronic Cloud Chamber from scratch to detect high energy particles.
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// let's talk
Questions about a build, a simulation, or a job? I read everything.