Thought I might create a space to document some of the commercial & professional work, projects and interesting places I have been involved with over the years. Unfortunately, photos are always last things on my mind when stuck into a large fieldwork project, so the record is slightly more sparse than I would like.
2022 to Present
Specialist Technical Officer for Embedded Systems, Industrial Automation & IoT: University of Edinburgh: The School of Engineering
Remote Labs
The remote labs project aims to deliver physical engineering teaching experiments to students through an online portal. My role in the team is the development of the electronics & firmware to run each experiment.
Single Tube Condenser
Single tube condenser is an experiment designed to teach thermodynamics of evaporating fluids. It presented a unique challenge to bring online, as it involves a powerful electric heater that has the potential to be dangerous if a fault condition occurs. It also involces heating flammable and volatile solvents. For this reason, we had to engineer the system to be fail-safe, as well as consider human factors in the set up and operation.
Truss Remote Lab Experiment PCB
Practable Power Supply Hat
This power supply is designed to power individual experiments, and sits ontop of a Single Board Computer (raspberry pi style). It provides power to the SBC, the experiment and has features that allow us to track the power used by both the experiment and computer running the experiment. We also built in some tools that will allow us to remotely hard reset the computer if it becomes unresponsive.
2021
Rocket Engine Test Facility
– Electrical Install & Setup
– First 7kN Engine Full Fire Tests
Skylark SKL Prep for Launch
– Wiring of Launcher Erector
– Assembly Ground Support Equipment
- Manufacture & installation of engine control & sensor wiring harness
Tracking System Prototype Development & Field Testing
Field Testing with Drones & Weather Balloons
Launch of RTV Sounding Rocket
Ground Station A – It took many forms – in many different locations. Sometimes it was beautiful.
Other Times It was Tough.
2020
Electronics Specialist – UK Aerospace Sector
Rocket Engine Test Facility
LEO Engine Testing, 3T Engine Testing & 3rd Stage Test
Skylark Micro
- Design & manufacture of booster stage power controller
- Verification & Validation of ground support equipment, onboard avionics & telemetry systems
2014-2019
Lots of Outside Broadcasts, mostly across the UK. Mostly in dark car parks on winter days. But there are a few gems in there.
Wembley Roof Heli Receive Beautiful Day
How it normally looked up there
Wild Things Pilot – POV Costume Cam Radio Systems – Black Park
2013
Radio Systems for Mobile Cameras:
- X-Games Foz Do Iguacu Brazil
- X-Games Barcelona
- X-Games Munich
Not many pictures from the last two due to the extreme hungover & lack of sleep.
My cable management skills have improved since then.
2012
London 2012
Wirecam at the Velodrome London 2012 with the team from Actioncam
Wirecam Radio Links for Gymnastics & Basketball @ North Greenwich Arena
2011
RF Engineer – Broadcast RF