I designed this board to monitor the power system in Intel Labs Seattle’s mobile robotics platform. It provides four current and four voltage measurements, and interfaces with a PC via USB. Readings for all of the channels can be read at over 100 Hz.
In the autumn of 2004, I moved to Seattle to attend the University of Washington. I began taking photos to share some of the neat places I discovered while exploring the areas around campus with my family and friends back at home. I started with a pocket-sized point-and-shoot digital camera, back when they were starting to become popular. As I learned more about the art and science of photography, I’ve moved on to cameras and lenses that afford better manual control.
I still enjoy taking walks around the beautiful University of Washington campus on weekends and capturing some of the scenery.
For the Winter 2009 offering of the University of Washington CSE Software for Embedded Systems course, I designed a laboratory assignment around electric field sensing. In the lab, students used an 8-bit microcontroller to accomplish the following: