About Me

Born and raised in New Hampshire, moved to Huntsville in 2008
I have a love/hate relationship with fixing things
My handle has many allusions/reasons, fore most is a tool to "revive" stuff
Pretty handy with a soldering iron. (through hole /surface mount / rework / toaster ovens)
I also know my way around some basic wood working
I've had two projects posted on Hack a Day (so far)
I have been working on contributions to Open Source Hardware in GEDA/PCB
I've worked a variety of jobs:
- Warehouse shipping and receiving / Repairing home medical equipment
- Taxi/courier driver
- Freelance computer repair
- School IT consultant
- Janitor
- Pharmacy Technician / Delivery Driver (I playfully called it "drug running")
- Test Technician in circuit board manufacturing
- Asterisk Tech support
- Failure analysis technician
- Web Host support
- Linux System Administrator

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Projects

Beam Bots. Especially trying to set complex behaviors with "simple" circuits.
- Symet. Solar Engine learning aid.
- Herbert the photovore.
PCamp. an old lunch-box PC turned into traveling Midi/Audio effects station.
Wifi PointerHound. System that shows the direction of a target AP.
Tennis for Two replica.
ML256 Video Blog EXTREME interest in helping put this together.
Kiosk for the Makers Local 256
War Scooter. War Driving rig for my scooter
Hackerspaces Digest an audio podcast