A quick guide to the various projects that I’ve been involved in since late 2006:

• Student Robotics. I founded this organisation along with Steve and Howard in 2006 (see episode 1), and was president of the organisation for a year. A lot of my work goes into this, and I’ve published a small amount of it here (reviewing it like this makes me realise that I need to blog about it more!):
  • I²C bootloader for MSP430s.
  • Construction of a prototype ball launcher
• Formica: a scalable (cheap) swarm robotics project. Firmware released as open source, and hardware designs are open too.
• univ430 JTAG adapter, with an open hardware design.
• Construction of an CNC X-Y table, with MSP430 based stepper controllers.
• iomon: a tool for logging access to a file.
• I do a fair amount of MSP430 hacking. I use the mspgcc tool chain — and I often publish the fixes and tricks that I develop here on my blog:
  • I’ve built RPMs of mspgcc for Fedora 9 and 10.
  • I’ve munged around with udev and the kernel to get it working.
  • A fix for firmware naming in Fedora
• Building a shed
• I’ve been hacking in Iceland on a glacier.
• I’ve written a very basic interface to mythtv, called “MythFace”. Still used in this house.
• I once wrote a plugin for yum to use avahi to find local package repository mirrors.