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Phil Thomas
Oct 5, 2011, 5:21:16 PM10/5/11
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Hi All,
My name is Phil Thomas, I'm an electrical engineer working for the
Australian Government. We don't get much of a chance to do any core
design where I work so I do it on my own time. I'm actively interested
in hardware design including embedded micro-controller, a little FPGA,
and I have a developing relationship with the RF and DSP daemons and
wisps. I also have a good understanding of power electronics and
control theory.
The projects I'm currently working on are robotic based. The first is
one to use up old parts, a rug crawler based around a large PIC
implementing PID velocity and position controllers. There is also an
RF link to a Linux machine acting as a GUI/control terminal (GTK) as
well the usual things you find on a small robot.
The other is not as developed but involves turning a radio control car
into an ROV. This is based around a Beagleboard XM as the on-board
controller and a Linux machine as a dedicated control terminal.
I am also a semi-experienced Systems Engineer with a few minor
projects under my belt including effective documentation. The ROV
above has a good set of docs recording the re
My name is Phil Thomas, I'm an electrical engineer working for the
Australian Government. We don't get much of a chance to do any core
design where I work so I do it on my own time. I'm actively interested
in hardware design including embedded micro-controller, a little FPGA,
and I have a developing relationship with the RF and DSP daemons and
wisps. I also have a good understanding of power electronics and
control theory.
The projects I'm currently working on are robotic based. The first is
one to use up old parts, a rug crawler based around a large PIC
implementing PID velocity and position controllers. There is also an
RF link to a Linux machine acting as a GUI/control terminal (GTK) as
well the usual things you find on a small robot.
The other is not as developed but involves turning a radio control car
into an ROV. This is based around a Beagleboard XM as the on-board
controller and a Linux machine as a dedicated control terminal.
I am also a semi-experienced Systems Engineer with a few minor
projects under my belt including effective documentation. The ROV
above has a good set of docs recording the re
Phil Thomas
Oct 5, 2011, 5:28:03 PM10/5/11
to Lunar Numbat
Hi All,
My name is Phil Thomas, I'm an electrical engineer working for the
Australian Government. We don't get much of a chance to do any core
design where I work so I do it on my own time. I'm actively interested
in hardware design including embedded micro-controller, a little FPGA,
and I have a developing relationship with the RF and DSP daemons and
wisps. I also have a good understanding of power electronics, control
My name is Phil Thomas, I'm an electrical engineer working for the
Australian Government. We don't get much of a chance to do any core
design where I work so I do it on my own time. I'm actively interested
in hardware design including embedded micro-controller, a little FPGA,
and I have a developing relationship with the RF and DSP daemons and
theory and use Protel (ancestor of Altium) regularly.
The projects I'm currently working on are robotic based. The first is
one to use up old parts, a rug crawler based around a large PIC
implementing PID velocity and position controllers. There is also an
RF link to a Linux machine acting as a GUI/control terminal (GTK) as
well the usual things you find on a small robot.
The other is not as developed but involves turning a radio control car
into an ROV. This is based around a Beagleboard XM as the on-board
controller and a Linux machine as a dedicated control terminal.
I am also a semi-experienced Systems Engineer with a few minor
projects under my belt including effective documentation. The ROV
and higher level design work.
I'm currently not is Australia (for my sins I got posted to Hawaii,
damn) but am keen to help out where or if I can.
To the Numbats go the spoils!
Phil Thomas
Marco Ostini
Oct 6, 2011, 8:08:08 AM10/6/11
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Hi Phil,
It's great to hear from you.
Lunar Numbat has been quite for the past few months, but we're hoping
to get back into regular action shortly.
Your offer to help is welcomed - thank you!
If you've not done so already, please have a read of the Current
Development tasks wiki page:
http://www.lunarnumbat.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/LunarNumbat/CurrentDevelTasks
If you have questions, fire away!
Cheers,
Marco
On Oct 6, 7:28 am, Phil Thomas <eveningstarsyste...@hotmail.com>
wrote:
It's great to hear from you.
Lunar Numbat has been quite for the past few months, but we're hoping
to get back into regular action shortly.
Your offer to help is welcomed - thank you!
If you've not done so already, please have a read of the Current
Development tasks wiki page:
http://www.lunarnumbat.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/LunarNumbat/CurrentDevelTasks
If you have questions, fire away!
Cheers,
Marco
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