User:Ganly

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

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

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

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
Make some ferrofluid for the space and do some films of it's properties
Make a 1D sliding saw tool
Make a 2D sliding router tool (guides like CNC but manually set)
Experiments with router height adjustment mechanisms
Maybe make a wooden bandsaw like Mathias Wandel's
Test making different gear types in the space, do some how-to videos for the available tool chains
Learn about welding and brazing
Try out some metal casting - Aluminium and maybe brass
Build a chalk drawing robot
Do some experiments with quadcopters and tricopters
Wind powered compost assist