Identity
About Tadorne
One engineering practice across electronics, mechanics, silicon, firmware and AI, published as a commons.
The name
Tadorne is the French name of the common shelduck, Tadorna tadorna — a large, unmistakable duck of Europe’s Atlantic coasts, at home in the air, on the water and on land. A fitting namesake for an engineering practice that moves between domains rather than settling in one.
The palette is taken straight from its plumage: crème body, near-black bottle-green head, a chestnut band across the chest, a vermilion bill. Nothing was invented. The colours are on the page because they are on the animal.
What Tadorne publishes
Open hardware, complete enough to rebuild:
- Schematics and PCB sources, not exported images — the KiCad files, the netlist, the generation scripts.
- Parametric mechanics in OpenSCAD, with the STLs, so dimensions can be changed rather than reverse-engineered.
- Firmware, including the parts that are still a skeleton, marked as such.
- Design documents that record the trade-offs and the error budget, not just the final answer.
- Engineering notes, including experiments that failed.
Everything published here is signed with a single GPG key; the verify page explains how to check a signature, a release or a git tag.
Contact
contact@tadorne.org — encrypted mail welcome, the key is on the verify page.