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Bob Paddock

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For the last 17+ years Bob has been a associate of Matric Limited working in the engineering department doing what ever job needed done. Bob is responsible for embedded software & hardware design, maintaining the 2,000+ volumes of data books for the company library, develop test procedures and documentation, or an occasion circuit board layout. Matric Limited has been in the electronic manufacturing business since 1972, longer than most companies you are likely to find in this field today. Besides our expertise in contract assembly, we do custom designs for some of the most hostel environments on Earth, actually under the Earth, namely the Coal Mining industry. Here, knowledge of Intrinsic Safety issues is a must.

Steve Hendrix

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Steve Hendrix is a registered Professional Engineer and independent consultant specializing in hardware and firmware design for medical and industrial data acquisition and control. Before making Hx Engineering a full time pursuit some eight years ago, he acquired industry experience in a variety of areas, including commercial PC interfaces, automated control systems for life support systems for the then-proposed Space Station Freedom, and preventive / predictive maintenance tools including vibration analysis. Prior to that experience, he was a military flight instructor in the USAF, having graduated from the USAF Academy with a BSEE in Computer Science and Mathematics. He lives in northeastern Ohio with his wife Kathy and their three children and continues an interest in astronomy in between volunteer activities such as Scouting.

Bob Perrin

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Bob Perrin has been working as an electrical engineer for ten years. By day, Bob designs C-programmable embedded controllers for Z-World (www.zworld.com). He has spent time in the field with various customers troubleshooting controller networks in commercial and industrial facilities. His background encompasses analog, digital and firmware development. By night, Bob focused mainly on analog design and instrumentation.

Bob's Circuit Cellar On-line column, "Considering the Details," is where he shares other aspects of his broad based experience with us.

Bob has been involved as lead electrical engineer for a line of intrinsically safe industrial workstations for use in explosive gas environments, such as offshore oil drilling platforms. He has designed instrumentation for agronomy, soil physics and water activity research

As for free time, Bob spends his evenings lounging on his porch in a wicker chair, pickin' out tunes on his homemade banjo while writing articles on a laptop.

George Martin

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George has worked with many of the popular processors from Intel, Motorola, Zilog, NSC, TI, and Microchip. He is experienced in programming in C, C++, BASIC, FORTRAN, PLM, and dBase under UNIX, DOS, and Win9x. George is familiar with Gerber, Orcad, Mentor Graphics, Redac, Xilinx, and CAD software. He also has worked with Gate Array and Custom Cell Design.

Presently George is the founder of ESC Inc., 40 River St Unit 40-6, Old Saybrook, CT. Providing contract-engineering services both on and off site. He specializes in both hardware and software design for embedded systems.

In a past life, George founded and managed OWL, an engineering service organization, which contracted for over 100 product designs, incorporating state of the art hardware and software techniques.

At the Dictaphone Corp., he was responsible for establishing its microprocessor design group.

While with Advanced Electronics Development, George managed the engineering department, where he actively juggled 6 to 8 projects concurrently.

In the beginning, George was hired by Hamilton Standard Division of UTC as a design engineer. He headed up a team designing custom LSI computers for airborne applications.

Bob Meister

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Bob has BSIE and MSCIS degrees from the University of New Haven, as well as a minor in EE. He has been repairing and programming computers for almost 30 years in OCR, health care, education, and business environments. He has had several articles published in Circuit Cellar Magazine and currently programs in C for a major securities firm where he has held positions as a technical specialist, applications designer, and programmer-analyst. He has dabbled with PICStics and Basic Stamps and helped edit the PICBasic manual.

Bob holds an FCC First Class Commercial Radio License as well as an amateur radio license, both obtained about 30 years ago. He recently upgraded to amateur extra class level. A member of the Connecticut Computer Club, his hobbies also include woodworking, cats, watching television, answering Ask Us questions, and fixing things.

Mike Baptiste

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Mike graduated from Rensselar in 1992 with a B.S. in Computer Systems Engineering. For the next 7 years he labored at the R&D labs of a major telecommunications equipment manufacturer doing a variety of things.

An avid home automation enthusiast, Mike now owns his own business, Creative Control Concepts, which designs, sells, and supports home automation equipment including the HCS-II. In what little spare time there is, he is working to completely renovate his home. You can track his progress at:

http://63.67.172.146:8002/remodel/

Stan Schorum

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Stan received a BSEE and MSEE from Northwestern University. He worked for 28 years as a design engineer and engineering manager for companies who manufacture equipment for telecommunications, nuclear physics, and medical diagnostics.

For the past 15 years he has worked as an independent design consultant to manufacturers of equipment for various industries including PC peripherals, IC and disk drive manufacturers, and miscellaneous measurement and video applications.

Tak Auyeung

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Tak graduated from U.C. Davis in 1995 with a Ph.D. in Computer Science. He worked for an embedded controller manufacturer for 7.5 years, dealing with software components from BIOSes, device drivers, real-time kernels to compilers and IDEs.

Currently, Tak is "freelance" and working on an experimental language and compiler in his leisure. He teaches Micromouse design at U.C. Davis and writes for Robot Science and Technology.

Fred Eady

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Fred loves airports. He should. He's in them all the time. When Fred's not tappin' keys for Circuit Cellar Magazine, he is on the phone or doing seat time in a jet solving problems for businesses all over the United States and Canada. In addition, Fred is an expert system troubleshooter and consultant. Basically, if it doesn't work as advertised, call Fred. As Fred always has his head either in a computer or the passenger window of an airplane, this everyday contact with the electronic industry allows Fred to bring this real-world experience to words every month in his Applied PC column.

Fred has literally been "on the road" for 22 years. He has been exposed to almost every variant of mechanical and electronic computing device there is (and has been). He's also walked among his share of communications equipment too. How many guys have a personal pair of IP routers in their possession? In fact, Fred's home is really a live-in lab equipped especially for embedded experimentation.

Embedded devices are not Fred's only love. Fred also heads his own company, E D Technical Publications. EDTP allows Fred to expand into other interests such as Microchip PIC related projects and articles. Although Fred's major is embedded, he also holds a minor in PIC. Fred has published a number of PIC tutorials and projects over the past five years and is a Microchip Third Party Representative.

Rumor has it that Fred has been seen and heard playing his black and white 25th Anniversary Fender Precision Bass with famous rock groups such as the Stones, Led Zeppelin and Queen. To this day Fred's neighbors report unconfirmed late night comings and goings of long-haired, aging rockers coupled with occasional loud rock guitar music that appears to originate from his Florida Home.

Bob Stek

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Bob built Heathkits as a teenager and won a prize at the NJ Science Fair with a contrast following robot. So he started out on a career in engineering and graduated from RPI in 1970 - with a degree in psychology!

Computers and electronics continued to be his hobbies after he completed his Ph.D. in psychology, and he built a Processor Technology SOL S-100 computer (which he still uses!) in 1978. He founded the ROMS computer club in 1979 (Regina Owners of Microcomputer Systems), and was president of the Hartford based Business and Professional Microcomputer Users' Group in 1985 after moving to Connecticut. In 1982 in Saskatchewan, Canada, Bob co-founded Interactive Systems, Inc., the province's first VAR of CP/M-based microcomputer systems for small businesses. Bob suggested the idea and did much of the research for Steve Ciarcia's HAL brainwave biofeedback project in BYTE magazine in 1988. He continues to be active in the Connecticut Computer Club where he makes bad (great) puns and pesters other members for donations to his "classic" (pre-IBM PC) computer collection.

In 1988 he was the first to OCR all 60 Sherlock Holmes stories into computer readable format and publish "An Electronic Holmes Companion" with the stories and text indexing and analysis programs. (It was Bob's deerstalker cap which was featured on the cover of Circuit Cellar Ink about 2 years ago!) Bob works as a psychologist and a healthcare quality improvement consultant with a special interests in statistical analysis of behavioral healthcare data and electronic medical records.

Jerry Horn

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Jerry Horn is a senior design engineer with Web Technologies, a consulting firm that specializes in testing, characterizing, and using high-precision and high-speed mixed-signal components. His particular focus is on high-resolution and high-speed analog-to-digital converters, digital-to-analog converters, and high-performance audio converters.

Jerry is familiar with a wide variety of microcontrollers and digital signal processors, as well as the issues associated with interfacing these components to mixed-signal devices.

Mark Balch

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Mark Balch is an electrical engineer designing FPGAs and PCBs in the data networking industry. He previously worked in the digital TV field where he participated in the development of various MPEG-2 broadcast products including an HDTV encoder. Mark graduated with a BSEE from The Cooper Union in 1995.

Rajanish Kamat

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Presently Lecturer in Electronics in the M.Sc. I and II Electronics Electronics Section, Department of Physics, of Goa University, India, Rajanish has served at Shivaji University, Vivekanand College, and Shivaji University Centre for P.G. Studies.

1. Microprocessor - Hardware & Software (8085)
2. Advanced Microprocessors (8086 onwards)
3. Analog & Digital Electronics
4. Basic Electronics (for M.Sc. Physics)
5. Industrial Electronics (Vocational Stream)
6. Microelectronics
7. Instrumentation

Rajanish is published in many Journals and Conference Proceedings including Circuit Cellar.

 

 

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