About

Hi!
Welcome! I hope you will enjoy this site and find it useful for all your robot building endeavors.

My name is David I am the Managing Blogger of this site and am also a full time Robotics Engineer. I love building, playing and working with Robots.

How did I get here? I started off in a technical school learning about electronics. I followed that by getting a BS in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Robotics. I think my unique mix of technical school and traditional school is very useful for building real systems.

In my day job I specialize in designing custom robotic systems to perform specialized tasks. By background is in system architecture, electronics and low level software. I get to play with lots of embedded computers, networking gear, sensors, motors, RF hardware, electronic design, and low level software. I also like mechanical stuff (sometimes). I have had the opportunity to work on robots for subterranean exploration, nuclear inspection, nuclear servicing, planetary exploration, agriculture, manufacturing, recycling, medical, defense, pipeline inspection, self driving cars, above water, under water and drones. I have been building robots professionally since 2006 (and even longer unprofessionally).

I put this site together to focus on professional robotics (as opposed to small hobby projects, which I also love). I have found there to be a lack of professional robotics information online, so I have created this blog to fill that void. Obviously things are always changing and advancing so this site constantly gets updated. I regularly go back and update old blog posts with new information.

I love hearing from people so please comment on the blog posts or use the contact form below.

This website attracts professional roboticists and is a good way to reach this target audience. If you are interested in supporting, having a product review done, and/or advertising on this blog please contact me for more information with the form below.

For product reviews I tend to like embedded computers, networking/wireless gear, sensors, motor controllers, wiring/connector components, and development kits. Please note that this blog does NOT do paid reviews. I will report what I find, if you disagree with what I post you may contact me however I will only update the review if I feel that it should be corrected.

Some of my other random hobbies include SCUBA diving, flying, bookbinding and backpacking/camping.

Cheers,
David