Vince
Hardware engineer at a robotics company, with degrees in mechanical and electrical engineering.
Before robots I worked in aerospace and semiconductors, which left me with an unusually wide toolkit: mechanical design and analysis of space-flight hardware on one end; PCB layout and manufacturing on the other. I learn new skills for fun. This site is where I write down the ones worth sharing — partly so you can follow along, mostly so future-me can remember how I did it.
Everything here is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0 — take it, build on it, just don’t sell it.
Find me: GitHub · Hackaday.io · Instagram · YouTube · dtwprojects@gmail.com
Things I like to tinker with:
- Mechanical CAD Modeling & Design
- Solidworks is my mother tongue
- I have been putting reps into FreeCAD & Onshape
- 3D Printing
- FDM for accessibility and iteration speed
- SLA for precision and when tolerances need to be tight (but not robust)
- Circuit Design and PCB layout
- Some simple animatronic controller boards
- Hacking Conference badge SAO
- Everything else is done manually on perf-board with wire strippers and patience
- Python Coding
- I love how easy & versatile matplotlib is for visualizing data
- Almost everything I do using numpy
- pytorch for the really intense ML stuff
- have been experimenting with vibe coding workflows for spinning up really simple python servers & web interfaces
- Misc Coding/Computers
- Some C/C++ here and there for trying to cram edge ML into tiny microcontrollers
- I compulsively spin up Linux servers on old machines
- kOS Kerboscript for fun
- Robotics
- I have a few autonomous system irons in the fire for experimenting and playing around with my own autonomous platforms (for fun)
