Identification · Fig. 00

Martin SundalAspås

Software engineer. Robotics and simulation, out of Trondheim.

Field

Robotics

Simulation

Location

Trondheim

Norway · 63.4°N

Specimens

05 projects

01 board

Fig. 01 — The board

Conway B3/S23 356 × 192 cells

Seeded from martin_plan.txt · no input after that Still life · stable

276

Gen of 276

388

Pop live cells

Conway's game of life, run from a seeded start. The board stops changing at generation 276. What is left is a still life, and it spells MARTIN.

Fig. 02 — Selected work

5 specimens

Study Companion

An Astro framework where a university course is authored as data, not as a website.

NTNU Course Data API, MCP Server & Timetable

Built to be able to ask Claude when the exams are. A typed client over NTNU's three course-data systems, with an MCP server and a timetable on top.

Cipherbound

A Pokémon-like game written from scratch in C++, and the best project in its NTNU course.

Interactive Black Hole Renderer

A C++ ray tracer for Schwarzschild spacetime. One photon geodesic per pixel, integrated until it hits the disc, crosses the horizon, or escapes.

Game of Life Text Generator

Type a word and it gets built out of colliding gliders in Conway's Game of Life.

Fig. 03 — Day job

Our team builds the software for the Verdal Production Line, the world's first fully automated production line of its kind. I am one of the lead developers on the welding planner, where most of my work is the planning code itself, and I work on the production line GUI as well. A lot of the job is industrial robotics and robotic welding.

Alongside that I have held introductory robotics courses for apprentices and built a few 3D printing projects. Right now I am pushing our machine learning work forward, starting with collecting and storing the data.

Employer

Since 2022

Aker Solutions

Verdal · Norway

The work in detail

Fig. 04 — Studies

Year 03 / 05

Fig. 04a · Quantum corral

Re ψ = \sum_{m} c_{m} J_{m} (j_{m 1} r) \cos (m θ \pm ω_{m} t)

m = 0, 2, 3 · turn 72s

Institution

NTNU · Trondheim

Applied Physics and Mathematics

Fysikk og matematikk · integrated MSc · 5 years

Specialization · from year 03

Quantum Technology

Kvanteteknologi · MTFYMAKVANTE24

I started at Aker in 2022 and began this degree two years later, keeping the job alongside it. Year 03 is the first year the programme offers a choice; there were four specializations, and I took quantum technology. It is physics and computing at the same time, and nobody knows yet what it turns into.

Fig. 04b · Bloch sphere
Driven qubit · tilted precession · T 60s