{"id":169,"date":"2015-10-10T18:50:16","date_gmt":"2015-10-10T18:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maru-labs.com\/?page_id=169"},"modified":"2026-10-06T02:28:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T00:28:01","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/maru-labs.com\/en\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_medium\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row via_grid cols_1 laptops-cols_inherit tablets-cols_inherit mobiles-cols_1 valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_text_column\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><h1>About Maru Labs<\/h1>\n<p><strong>Maru Labs<\/strong> is now my private technology and open-source project. It started with electronics for classic BMW K-series motorcycles. Today it also covers software, embedded systems, Linux, maker projects and everything that connects mechanics, electronics and computing.<\/p>\n<p>Many projects start for a simple reason: I need something, cannot find a solution I like, so I build it myself. If the result can help others too, I document it and publish it openly whenever possible.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_medium\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row via_grid cols_1-2 laptops-cols_inherit tablets-cols_inherit mobiles-cols_1 valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"w-image align_center\"><div class=\"w-image-h\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/maru-labs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/avatar-600x600.jpg\" class=\"attachment-us_img_size_1 size-us_img_size_1\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maru-labs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/avatar-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/maru-labs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/avatar-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/maru-labs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/avatar-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/maru-labs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/avatar-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/maru-labs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/avatar-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/maru-labs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/avatar-350x350.jpg 350w, https:\/\/maru-labs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/avatar.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_text_column\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><h4>Maru \u2013 mechanical engineering, computing &#038; open source<\/h4>\n<p>I studied mechanical engineering and computing and I am especially interested in projects where these worlds meet. Designing and printing an enclosure, developing and assembling a PCB, writing firmware and finally making everything work reliably together \u2013 that is exactly what makes these projects interesting to me.<\/p>\n<p>I am active at <strong>Hackerspace ODW<\/strong> and publish some of my projects on GitHub, including Nasu for Pebble, 3ventz.ch and other open-source work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/marukitano\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">github.com\/marukitano<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"w-separator size_medium\"><\/div><div class=\"w-btn-wrapper align_left\"><a class=\"w-btn us-btn-style_1\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/marukitano\"><span class=\"w-btn-label\">GITHUB<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Maru Labs: hardware and electronics projects for BMW K-Series motorcycles and maker projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-169","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maru-labs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maru-labs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maru-labs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maru-labs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maru-labs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/maru-labs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1550,"href":"https:\/\/maru-labs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/169\/revisions\/1550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maru-labs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}