Because my life is undergoing such a radical transformation, I will simply offer a list of characteristics. This site used to be for:
unhinged rants, ultramarathon training and trending topics, essays on injustice and art, a smattering of oil painting, poetry, recipes, and music interests.
Now, well, this website is still Stuff About Things, but those Things and Stuff imply very, very different vectors.
2011-2015 Characteristics
- Ultramarathon reports, essays and photography
- Poetry
- Recipes
- Music
- Oil painting
- Rants
- Heroes and heroines
- Tactile art in clay and bananas
- Found and manipulated art
- Social commentary
- Concerts attended: 1, Oneohtrix Point Never at The Warhol Museum
2015-2018
- Oil painting
- Digital art
- Drones
- Robotics and physics
- Rants
- Music
- Heroes and heroines
- Poetry
- Dream destination: Osaka
Running is gone. I replaced the hours I put into running with hours spent studying robotics and applications.
School attending: Cal U of PA
Places published 2015-2017:
- Pa Bridges, a monthly magazine based in California, Pa
- Skyhopper.biz blog, a data links and UAS tech company based in Israel
- Falcon Photo and Oils http://www.falconphotoandoils.com is where I collect footage and writing. AKT test for commercial drone pilot PIC/ instructor passed April 2017, good to May 2019
Awards: Related to studies
- NASA Space grant, focus on drone tech applications and fundamentals of flight, 2016-2017
- Work-study through burrough of Belle Vernon, PA to develop a distracted driving program designed to lower fatality and injury
- Work-study, Cal U, technical studies, focus in robotics, 2017
Change in lifestyle:
- Almost zero income, sadly, down by $10ks
- Hours of sleep per night: 4
- Kids: 2
- Freelancing IT and drone services
- New creative outlets: one hour acoustic guitar daily with app trainers, IoT research, prototyping a bio-delivery and rescue drone.
- Concerts attended, 1, Sun o))) at the Rex Theatre in Pittsburgh
- Old career vs new career: Environmental Services Management vs. Mechatronics Technical Services
- Weirdest gig: Joined a local craft fair to hawk robotic services. My reasons were simple.
New software familiarity:
- Siemens Step 7
- Multisim
- Autodesk
- C/C++
- Python
- Cuda (barely)
- Python
- Powershell
- Tensorflow ( barely)
- Gimp
- Unity (barely)
- Visual C++
- Arduino
- RobotC
- Putty
- Vex
- Roborealm
- To learn: Keras, Torche, Rust, Java, Tensorflow, Betaflight
Target career: DARPA through AAC, then to Lockheed Martin through USGS or Dept. of Transportation, never retire and tinker at Moog. I used my 20s for retirement when I was able to truly enjoy debauched and cavalier adventures.
Nothing fancy.
Community involvement: Volunteer BYSA sports photography, Future Pilots League volunteer, BotsIQ volunteer
All my life is focused towards UUV remote communication systems. Ultimate application is for exoplanet exploration. I hope you visit to see how I progress.
