https://brotzeit.engineering/ A meta project about code, photography and food by Jan Hettenkofer. en Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:36:56 GMT https://brotzeit.engineering/articles/adsk-fusion-miter-template-generator https://brotzeit.engineering/articles/adsk-fusion-miter-template-generator Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT As much as I love independent software and applaud the straight-to-the point simplicity of BikeCAD, I felt constrained by its two-dimensional, heavily formulaic workflow and frustrated by its… cycling framebuilding cad https://brotzeit.engineering/articles/first-fillet-brazed-frame https://brotzeit.engineering/articles/first-fillet-brazed-frame Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT It's not the most cost-efficient way to get a new bike, certainly not the easiest and it might be an expression of my IKEA syndrome, but I can't help it - if I like something, I want to know what… cycling framebuilding https://brotzeit.engineering/articles/bike-frame-jig-dummy-axle-holder https://brotzeit.engineering/articles/bike-frame-jig-dummy-axle-holder Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT I designed a dummy axle holder for my frame building jig and I'm open-sourcing the files. cycling framebuilding https://brotzeit.engineering/articles/bikepacking-iceland https://brotzeit.engineering/articles/bikepacking-iceland Wed, 22 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT 530 km of gravel and silence from Reykjavik to Snæfellsnes, looking for the Iceland behind the souvenir shops. travel photography https://brotzeit.engineering/articles/solving-mazes-image-processing https://brotzeit.engineering/articles/solving-mazes-image-processing Sun, 19 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT Given an image of a maze, produce another picture with the solution drawn in. That's the challenge my colleagues Jens and Martin recently put to our development team. My first thought was "there… image-processing https://brotzeit.engineering/articles/c41-film-development-cheat-sheet https://brotzeit.engineering/articles/c41-film-development-cheat-sheet Sat, 02 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT I don't trust myself not to make a mistake in adjusting C41 development times for developer exhaustion or push while also keeping track of temperature, agitation and all the other times. So I made a… analogue-photography photography https://brotzeit.engineering/articles/lasagna https://brotzeit.engineering/articles/lasagna Mon, 25 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT A photographically illustrated recipe. food photography recipe https://brotzeit.engineering/articles/impromptu-barbecue https://brotzeit.engineering/articles/impromptu-barbecue Mon, 04 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT This is an impromptu portrait of a barbecue session. No preparation, no lighting, only a hungry bunch of people telling me to hurry up. food photography https://brotzeit.engineering/articles/kitchen-alchemy-butter https://brotzeit.engineering/articles/kitchen-alchemy-butter Sat, 25 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT Butter can be made from milk or - as it is the case here - from heavy cream. If this raw product is pasteurised, the resulting product will have a longer shelf life but it will also lack the… food photography https://brotzeit.engineering/articles/finding-the-positives-in-negatives https://brotzeit.engineering/articles/finding-the-positives-in-negatives Wed, 05 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMT [ Old post, left here for posterity ] Back in the days before Instagram in particular and digital photography in general people used little bits of plastic coated with some toxic but oh-so-magical… code photography colour