About me

Hi! I'm Pontus (usually called "Frigolit"), a 23 year old Swedish guy who study Computer Science at Uppsala University.
In my free time I do software, web and hardware development, graphic design and some other stuff.
I also play a lot of games, listen to music and watch movies, series and anime.

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Development

I first started programming when I was about 8 years old on an Epson HX-20 computer that my dad had (I still have it and it still works).
When I was about 10 I moved on to Visual Basic 6.0 in which I made apps in lots of categories, including networking (pcap and packet filtering), games, graphics (2D/3D), audio, analysis/visualization, cryptography (AES, RSA, ...), injection and API hooking, etc.
Around the age of 16 I started playing around with C/C++ and a year or two later I found the Pike programming language which is what I'm mostly using today.
I use Pike for nearly everything except for embedded systems (AVR, ARM, ...) where I use C/C++.

I used to play with electronics when I was a kid, hooking up and LED to a button on a breadboard. However my interest in electronics faded away as the years went by, until the age of 19 when I got interested in microcontrollers and got an AVR ATmega128 devevelopment board for christmas.
Digital electronics is easy, however analog electronics I'm currently learning, where I'm gonna start off with building an audio amplifier and possibly a mixer as well.
I'm also very interested in FPGAs (Field-Programmable Gate Arrays) for which I'm going to buy a development board soon enough.
I've done lots of stuff with electronics but I've only finished two projects, a Breakout clone and a S/PDIF (Toslink) switcher.

Multimedia

I've done some graphical stuff using Photoshop and 3D Studio Max, though I haven't made anything lately because I don't have enough time.
I have a pen tablet too, but haven't made anything i consider good enough for putting on the site, yet.

Something I haven't had time for at all however is music. I'd really like to do something, I even have some ideas, but I just don't have enough time right now :(

Japan, Anime and Manga

I love Japan and have been there twice on vacation so far. I've also studied Japanese for two years in Sweden.
I'm gonna write a little text about my last trip to Japan (summer 2010) with some friends. Pictures will be available in the Gallery shortly.
If I have enough money next summer I'm gonna go there again and try to visit some places outside of Tokyo, something I had planned to do last time but never really had time for.

Not too surprisingly I also watch a lot of anime and read some manga. I watch anime with english subtitles since I'm not too good with Japanese yet (I didn't use it very much after learning it in school, so I forgot a lot of it, but I'm learning it again).
The manga I have takes some time to read since it's also in Japanese, but it's good for learning. I have some "Fullmetal Alchemist" and "Higurashi no Naku Koro ni" books.

Games

I love games! Be it first-person shooters, role-playing games, sandbox games, adventure games, strategy games or whatever.
I've played games my whole life, starting with DOS games on some really old computer with Windows 3.11.
Some of my favorite old DOS games include Commander Keen 1 and 4, Pinball Fantasies, Supaplex, Mystic Towers and Skyroads.
I also have some consoles, including an Amiga Commodore A600, Glorytone Pong, Playstation 1, 2 and 3, Gameboy, Gameboy Advance, Super Nintendo (Super Famicom) and a Nintendo DS.
Today I mostly play Minecraft, Powder (a roguelike), WipEout HD (zone mode ftw) and Borderlands.