I build industrial software, embedded firmware tools, and small deterministic engines for systems that have to keep working when conditions are not ideal.

My work focuses on practical C99, C#, and C++ tooling for:

• embedded firmware
• industrial software and communication
• diagnostics and reliability
• storage and power-loss recovery
• data acquisition
• constrained edge systems

Build tools that are small enough to understand, strict enough to trust, and useful outside of demos.

My usual design bias:

• deterministic behavior
• clear contracts and failure modes
• small integration surfaces
• zero or minimal dependencies
• caller-owned state where possible
• bounded memory and execution where practical
• tests before claims

🌐 Project documentation: vanderhell.github.io

LOX is the technical brand for my embedded and systems projects. The name represents concentrated engineering: compact code, high pressure, predictable behavior, and systems that can be tested instead of guessed.

The LOX family consists of focused libraries rather than one large framework:

• loxdb — deterministic embedded database for constrained systems and microcontrollers
• loxdb_pro_docs — public API documentation for the commercial loxdb_pro modules
• loxdust — verified persistent object storage with recovery operations
• loxbudget — heap-free admission control based on resource budgets
• loxboot — zero-heap bootloader core with A/B slots and rollback-oriented flow
• loxguard — supervised execution boundaries and failure evidence
• loxalarm — deterministic alarm-state core
• loxseq — power-loss-aware step sequencer
• loxperm — permissive and interlock evaluator
• loxsort — constraint-aware deterministic sorting
• loxc — trainable codec for domain-specific text payloads

• axiom-one — focused deterministic primitives for common embedded problems
• GrayGyre — allocation-free Gray-code data-placement primitive for spreading adjacent indices across logical cells
• skipspace — heap-free traversal and subtree skipping for large implicit constrained search spaces
• ImplicitNet — allocation-free deterministic implicit networks with reversible mappings and routing
• Orbitra — deterministic reversible traversal of bounded integer domains
• microcodec — heap-free C99 compression codecs for embedded sensor and binary data
• Runa — bounded MCU execution runtime for host-defined hardware jobs
• Aervault — allocation-free persistent records for microcontrollers
• SILITRA — ESP32 hardware identity manifests and deterministic fingerprints
• micro-toolkit — collection of small, composable embedded C99 libraries
• micronet — LAN-first messaging for embedded nodes and desktop diagnostics
• uMesh — lightweight ESP32 mesh networking over raw 802.11
• iotspool — persistent store-and-forward MQTT queue

• microsh — debug shell with history and tab completion
• microlog — multi-backend structured logging
• microfsm — table-driven finite-state machine engine
• microres — retry, backoff, circuit breaker, and rate limiter
• microconf — schema-driven configuration with CRC and flash storage
• microcbor — minimal CBOR encoder and decoder
• micoring — lock-free SPSC ring buffer
• microtimer — one-shot and periodic software timers
• microbus — topic-based event and publish/subscribe bus

• microhealth — runtime health monitoring
• microwdt — per-task software watchdog
• microboot — boot and crash-loop recovery manager
• microassert — unified panic system
• microota — OTA update flow with commit and rollback
• microflash — unified flash abstraction
• panicdump — persistent Cortex-M3/M4 crash dumps
• MCU-Malloc-Tracker — deterministic heap diagnostics for bare-metal MCUs
• nvlog — power-loss-safe append log
• microtest — single-header C test framework

• defer — automatic resource cleanup through DEFER()
• cguard — scope guards and result types for C
• safemath — checked arithmetic and buffer sizing
• microcrypt — SHA-256, HMAC-SHA256, and AES-128 ECB/CBC/GCM
• microdh — minimal X25519 key exchange

• SequenceState — fixed-size C11 primitives for reversible traces and composable ordered ranges
• EquiShift — deterministic constraint-preserving transfers for embedded systems
• BoundedReversiblePermutation — seeded reversible permutation for bounded integer domains
• BoundedReversibleCycle — reversible full-cycle traversal of bounded integer domains
• Reverspace — deterministic reversible traversal of implicit state spaces
• CubeRank — reversible mapping between centered signed 3D coordinates and integer indices
• MobiusTrajectory — reversible 256-bit linear transform over GF(2)
• Cyclaxis — exact endpoint arithmetic for paths whose directions are roots of unity
• signumera — embedded filtering, pulse analysis, windowing, and signal measurements
• estimora — bounded sensor statistics including histograms, quantiles, entropy, and medians
• certivox — CRC profiles, streaming CRC, Hamming codes, and SECDED error correction
• binavex — bit masks, permutations, Gray coding, parity, and bitset operations
• stabilora — bounded signal clamping, debounce, qualification, and timeout primitives
• vectrava — fixed-point vectors, transforms, quaternions, and spatial calculations
• chronovex — portable duration, timer, deadline, and remaining-time calculations
• angulora — deterministic fixed-point angle, phase, and motor-angle calculations
• claudaris — checked arithmetic, saturation, ranges, alignment, and time conversion
• quantelis — fixed-point scaling, interpolation, smoothing, and numerical transforms
• modulenta — bounded indexing, representation transforms, selection, and compact state helpers
• locadex — grid, voxel, Morton, and bounded spatial-index calculations

• IOBusMonitor — desktop tool for Modbus TCP/RTU and Siemens S7 PLCs
• RTULogSuite — ESP32 and Windows Modbus RTU logging toolchain
• Pragotron-Controller — minute-impulse controller for a Pragotron stepper clock

• Nexum — experimental programmable communication fabric built from bounded deterministic primitives
• Compost — experimental deterministic artificial-life and complex-systems simulator
• num8 — O(1) membership engine for eight-digit numbers
• num8-lup — low-bandwidth update propagation protocol
• IronFamily.FileEngine — binary IoT file engines and tooling

• Basalt.NET — durable background jobs, scheduling, and workflows with embedded or SQL Server storage
• MultiGpuHelper — scheduling compute workloads across multiple GPUs
• CrudFramework — lightweight CRUD framework for .NET applications

• securebox-hw — secure hardware password manager concept

I welcome practical feedback from people working with embedded C, microcontrollers, RTOS or bare-metal firmware, industrial devices, and constrained edge systems.

Useful contributions include:

• integration on real hardware
• failure reports with logs and reproducible evidence
• storage and power-loss validation
• portability feedback
• code and API review
• documentation and example improvements