User:Vex
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[edit] Background
Vex holds a bachelor's degree in computer engineering and works as a software developer in the scientific computing field. He is also interested in circuit design and amateur radio.
[edit] Projects
[edit] Ongoing
- Proxmark 3 LCD
- Portable LF/HF RFID reader/writer/emulator
- Vacuum tube clock
- Russian IV-18 (ИB-18) vacuum fluorescent display
- Network-accessible LED lighting
- 5m of RGB LED strip
- Microchip PIC18F2550 microcontroller
- ENC28J60 Ethernet controller
[edit] Completed
- Basic direct-sequence spread-sprectrum implementation
- Linear-feedback shift register board designed in EagleCAD
- Loads of MiniCircuits blocks
- Not wireless (missing delay-lock loop...)
- Bat-detecting camera trigger
- Ultrasonic detector
- Triggers an external "hunting" camera with IR flash
- Snaps photos of bats going in and out of abandoned mine shafts
- Laser engraver controller
- ATtiny2313
- Programmed in C
- Delivers tickle pulse and control signal for laser intensity
- Vacuum tube guitar amplifier
- Chassis and speaker cabinet built from scratch
- Gibson GA-6 Lancer clone (~14W)
- Russian 6N2P-EV (6Н2П-ЕВ) and 6P6S (6П6С) tubes instead of 12AX7 and 6V6
- Two 1/4" TRS inputs and one XLR input
- FIRST Robotics team timesheet application
- Fingerprint scanning
- H2 SQL backend
- Records participation of students during build season
[edit] Ideas
- Homebrew GPS receiver
- NAVSTAR, GLONASS, Galileo
[edit] Contact
- Mail: vex at 757 dot org
- IRC: vex at irc.757.org, #hackerspace
