Engineering Experiences

Find a collection of my favorite projects on my blog: https://medium.com/my-life-as-a-tinkerer/projects/home

Podcast Appearances:

MEP EP #165: Dillon Nichols – Simplified Home Automation

Winner of these design challenges:

Hackaday Coin Cell Challenge with my project Disintegrated LM3909 - 1.5V LED Flasher.
Infineon Sensing the World in All Three Dimensions Contest with my project Transforming Atari 2600 Controller.
MacroFab Design Contest: Blink an LED with my project Disintegrated LM3909 - 1.5V LED Flasher.
Beer Coaster Design Challenge w/ Brew Gentlemen with my project Pittsburgh Terrain Coaster for Brew Gentlemen.
MacroFab Design Contest: Useless Machine [Second Place] with my project Clap-Activated Applause Machine.
The Giant Board SBC Contest with my project MIDI Sequencer Using Thermal Camera.

Winner of the idea phase of these Hackster contests:

Articles covering my projects:

Some projects I've heavily contributed to:

CloseBrace.com beta tester - provided feedback on design and bugs
ZeroPhone - provided 3D models for many components

The Microsoft & Hackster IoT Bootcamp: From Idea to Device

08/29/13 - Arrow Vision Series » Power Management 2013
10/24/13 - TI Connecting the Internet of Things using TI Wireless Technology - SpeedWay™ Design Workshop
04/25/14 - Agilent Mobile Measurement Lab
05/08/14 - Build a Winning IoT Application in Hours
07/15/14 - Intro to ClearCase
04/08/15 - Viasystems - PCB 101 "Printed Circuit Basics" & PCB 102 "Enabling Technologies"
05/08/15 - Professor Harish Krishnaswamy: Rethinking The Functional Boundaries of Integrated Radio-Frequency Systems Enables New Wireless Communication Paradigms
07/31/15 - Dr. Phu H. Phung: Securing Untrusted Web Content in Browsers
08/14/15 - David W. Graham, Ph.D.: RAMP: Accelerating Low-Power Electronics Design with a Reconfigurable Analog/Mixed-Signal Platform
09/19/15 - 09/20/15 - Hackster Hardware Weekend MD + DC

Collaborated on project: Raspberry Pi Home Automation

11/17/15 - Lunch & Learn: MEAN Stack
02/04/16 - Xilinx SDSoC Development Environment Technical Seminar
03/28/16 - NXP Smarter World Tour
04/20/16 - Lunch & Learn: Internet of Things, An Introduction
04/22/16 - Kevin W. Lu, D.Sc.: Teaching the Internet of Things: from STEM to STEAM
08/17/16 - Lunch & Learn: Machine Learning Overview
08/26/16 - David Koeplinger: Automatic Generation of Efficient Accelerator Designs for Reconfigurable Hardware
09/27/16 - Prof. Mike Wirthlin: FPGA Processing in Space : Opportunities and Challenges
09/27/16 - Brian Balling: Pwning the PlayStation
10/05/16 - Advanced BLE System Design Workshop sponsored by Cypress Semiconductor
01/25/17 - PGHPython: Hacking the visual world with OpenCV by Nicholas Dahm
03/06/17 - 03/10/17 - Variable Frequency Drives Technical Training - Next Generation Control Liquid-Cooled WC3
08/11/17 - "My Build is Slow" at Uber ATG
09/25/17 - Evening with Cathy O'Neil, author of Weapons of Math Destruction
10/22/17 - Welding 101, Industrial Lamp by HackPGH
07/17/18 - 07/20/18 - ANSYS SIwave Private Training for PI, SI, and EMI analysis
10/03/18 - Particle Spectra IoT Conference
08/27/19 - Working Effectively with China
09/08/19 - Blacksmithing Lesson - Introduction to Bottle Openers
09/11/19 - Particle Roadshow 2019
10/11/19 - 10/14/19 - Catskill Mountain Makers Camp
03/04/20 - Keysight EMC Pre-Compliance Seminar