User:Ganly

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Steve Ganly @ganly

Background

  • Self taught 6502 assembler on a vic20 aged 12 in 1980 (yep - one of those...), had a few games released in the 1980's micro boom on the Commodore 64
  • BSc degree in Computer Science graduating in 1990
  • Founded an IT consultancy and grew it to 44 people servicing merchant banks setting up and maintaining large networks of Unix systems
  • Long time Perl Hacker, been working with Ruby on Rails since about 2007


Skills

  • Learned basic wood and metalworking as a child, did O'Levels in Technical Drawing and something called Modular Technology
  • Last 5 years re-examining things from the ground up - doing some fine woodworking and accurate metalwork on lathes and mills
  • Big time automation fan - CNC using Mach3


Goals

  • Get a deeper understanding of electronics - I'm still not happy with my mental model of semiconductors at the molecular level and that bothers me
  • Improve the CNC facilities of the Hackspace

Project plans and speculative ideas

  • Build a bunch of CNC machines for the Hackspace
  • Build a decent aquaponics system
  • Solar powered lawn munching swarm of robots
  • Scratch built radio controlled hovercraft
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