I stay very busy, so a response may take a couple days. This website is a catalog of various personal and professional work created to showcase some interesting projects I've done and to form a bit of a CV.
I'm a Mechanical Engineer by training, and primarily work as a mechanical designer, but have significant additional experience in fabrication, electronics and software. My day job for the last 14 years has been as a Research Engineer tied to a fluid mechanics and heat transfer research lab at Georgia Tech. I moonlight at a small manufacturing concern Horizon Manufacturing, LLC. where we are doing contract manufacturing and some new product development.
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I stay very busy, so a response may take a couple days.
The type/ interest fields use these keys:
SW: Software, MD:
Mechanical Design, ED: Electrical
Design, GT: Day Job related, HM: Night Job related
Note: It will take me a little bit to get this filled in.
| Project |
Type/Interest |
Description |
| LibGx |
SW | A C++ X widget library |
| TVC |
SW ED | A project to design a graphics core within a
FPGA. |
| cmcad |
SW | A Mechanical (and other) CAD system for Linux |
| route |
SW | A PCB design program. Incomplete but close to
useful. KiCAD came along and paused my work on this. |
| Shredder Challenge |
SW | I had an independent go at the DARPA shredder
challenge. |
| Traverse |
GT MD ED SW | A device to fly an airfoil model in pitch and
plunge within a wind tunnel. Part of a multi-year MURI
program that involved our lab at Ga. Tech. |
| Bullet Traverse |
GT ED | A fun bit of high power electronics. Part of
a project to dynamically move a cable suspended model within
a wind tunnel at Ga Tech. |
| Pitch Traverse |
GT MD | A project to dynamically pitch a lightweight
airfoil model within a small wind tunnel. |
| Compressor |
GT MD | A high speed piston compressor to hook
synthetic jets up to a duct flow. |
| Synthetic Jet I |
GT MD | A synthetic jet actuator for active flow control. Early career. |
| Synthetic Jet II |
GT MD | A synthetic jet actuator module for testing
aero-optic effects. Early career. |
| Combustion Actuator |
GT MD | An airfoil integrated hydrogen fueled
combustion actuator for active flow control wind tunnel
experiments. |
| ICNTRL 1 |
ED SW | I needed an industrial motion controller and
PLC for my own devices, but wanted to program in 'c'. |
| ICNTRL 2 |
ED SW | A vastly upgraded platform from ICNTRL 1.
Lots more IO, Lots more processing power. |
| Bridgeport Retrofit I |
SW MD ED | My first automation project. Early career.
Lots of interesting mistakes. |
| Lathe Retrofit |
MD SW | My second retrofit project. A cheap Chinese
lathe CNC retrofit. |
| Merlin |
ED SW | My third retrofit. I redesigned and
reimplemented the control on an old Merlin robot from
American Robot. This project involved the full
implementation of the 6 axis closed loop control system
including inverse kinematics, a UI, trajectory generation,
and more all from scratch. A blown axis drive lead to the
design of a replacement motor driver. |
| Bridgeport Retrofit II |
MD ED SW | My fourth retrofit, in progress. A BPT
series II R2E3. I'm developing the entire control from
scratch. A axis drive blew early in the process, so a
new servo amp was designed and built. |
| Free Piston Engine |
GT MD SW ED | A crazy fun emergency project at GT. Early
career. |
| SOV 2m |
GT MD ED | Smallish experimental facilities for lab and
field tests of a GT power generation concept. |
| SOV 6m |
GT MD | A pretty big structure for a field test of
the SOV concept. |
| Wearable Power |
SW MD ED | A project to create a wearable power
prototype. An interesting failure. |
| CPAP |
ED SW | A project to design and prototype the
electronics of a compact CPAP machine. An interesting
failure. |
| Dyno |
HM MD | A dynamometer used to generate
speed/torque/power curves |
| Gearbox |
HM MD | My first end-user product design. |
The following are small software libraries I've written and frequently use.
| LibCb |
A C++ callback object library. A required
support library for libGx but useful standalone. |
| LibTmr |
A C++ unix timer library for libGx |
| LibSer |
A C++ serial library. Generally useful. |
| LibImg |
A C++ image library with specialization for
X11. A Q&D way to get pixels displayed. |
| libRas |
A C++ rasterizer; used with libImg for vector
drawing |
| libF3D |
A C++ render. Kinda GL like. |