project log & resume
Current Activities
- producing virtual reality training applications at foundry 45
- producing explanatory videos at CuriousInventor YouTube channel about bitcoin and engineering
- misc home/car repair videos on my ScottDriscoll YouTube channel
- producing explanatory videos at CuriousInventor YouTube channel about bitcoin and engineering
- misc home/car repair videos on my ScottDriscoll YouTube channel
education & highlights
Education
- BS Mechanical Engineering, minor computer science & robotics, Carnegie Mellon
- MS Mechanical Engineering (controls), Georgia Tech
- MS Music Technology, Georgia Tech
- IPC Certified Soldering Specialist
Highlights
- 15m views, 60k subscribers on YouTube CuriousInventor channel
- 10 Hackaday mentions (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10)
- 1st page google results for "surface mount soldering", "how bitcoin works", "kicad tutorial"
Skill Sets
- management & production: recruit & lead team of developers & artists to create VR training applications
- software: virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) app development (vuforia, unity), web & mobile app development (AngularJS, Google App Engine, iOS, android), embedded (atmel, pic, arduino, raspberry pi), simulation, music (max/msp, dsp, analysis, algorithms)
- hardware: electrical design, mechanical design, surface mount soldering, rapid prototype development, robotics
- video: 360, production, graphics animation
- BS Mechanical Engineering, minor computer science & robotics, Carnegie Mellon
- MS Mechanical Engineering (controls), Georgia Tech
- MS Music Technology, Georgia Tech
- IPC Certified Soldering Specialist
Highlights
- 15m views, 60k subscribers on YouTube CuriousInventor channel
- 10 Hackaday mentions (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10)
- 1st page google results for "surface mount soldering", "how bitcoin works", "kicad tutorial"
Skill Sets
- management & production: recruit & lead team of developers & artists to create VR training applications
- software: virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) app development (vuforia, unity), web & mobile app development (AngularJS, Google App Engine, iOS, android), embedded (atmel, pic, arduino, raspberry pi), simulation, music (max/msp, dsp, analysis, algorithms)
- hardware: electrical design, mechanical design, surface mount soldering, rapid prototype development, robotics
- video: 360, production, graphics animation
current projects
Virtual Reality (VR) Training Apps - VR Training systems to help organizations train workers more efficiently and effectively.
Pluralsight Video Course - Introduction to Bitcoin and Decentralized Technology (Blockchain) - A 3.5hr course spanning from the basics (where to buy, how to send Bitcoin), to the latest advanced features, to a survey of decentralized projects beyond Bitcoin like Ethereum and IPFS.
CuriousInventor YouTube Channel - Concise explanations of technical things.
Atlanta Bitcoin Meetup - helping to organize local Bitcoin enthusiasts to meet and discuss / learn about Bitcoin. The group was started by bitpay.
In a related note, curating bitcoin educational videos at how2bitcoin.com with Aaron Williams.
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Augmented Reality for Industrial Equipment - Mobile apps that show instructions overlaid on top of real equipment. |
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EquipCodes - A mobile app that scans industrial equipment to pull up documentation and replacement part info. It's also a cloud-based management system that allows manufacturers to manage info on millions of serials, and see analytics on how their equipment is used.
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Augmented Reality Circuit Building App - See overlays of exactly where to connect wires on a bread board (unreleased).
publications, presentations, workshops & interviews
presentation at Bitcoin Consumer Fair, 4/18/15
Interviews
- Feb 2014 AmpHour Electronics Podcast Interview - "An Interview with Scott Driscoll – Impacable Interdisciplinary Inventor"
- Nov 2013 Newfiation Bitcoin Interview
- Mar 2012 Featured Engineer Interview on EEWeb
Presentations & Workshops
- April 2015 - Bitcoin Consumer Fair presentation: Bitcoin 101
- April 2015 - Georgia State Media Entrepreneurship class lecture "AR / VR Revolution - Taking Computer Interfaces from 2D to 3D"
- Feb 2014 AmpHour Electronics Podcast Interview - "An Interview with Scott Driscoll – Impacable Interdisciplinary Inventor"
- Nov 2013 Newfiation Bitcoin Interview
- Mar 2012 Featured Engineer Interview on EEWeb
Presentations & Workshops
- April 2015 - Bitcoin Consumer Fair presentation: Bitcoin 101
- April 2015 - Georgia State Media Entrepreneurship class lecture "AR / VR Revolution - Taking Computer Interfaces from 2D to 3D"
pic of audience taken from Google Glass at NerdNite
- Oct 2014 - Atlanta Maker Faire booth exhibit - Augmented Reality Assisted Circuit Building
- May 2014 - Nerd Nite Atlanta presentation - Terminator Vision: Augmented Reality Coming Soon to Glasses
- March 2014 - American Society of Mechanical Engineers Atlanta Chapter presentation - Interfaces of the Future, Available Now (Augmented Reality Displays, Google Glass, 3D Sensors Bringing Computers into the Real World)
- Sept 2012 - Atlanta mini Maker Faire Surface mount soldering workshop
- Nov 2009 - Freeside Hackerspace workshop on Surface Mount Soldering with Solder Paste and Toaster Ovens
- May 2014 - Nerd Nite Atlanta presentation - Terminator Vision: Augmented Reality Coming Soon to Glasses
- March 2014 - American Society of Mechanical Engineers Atlanta Chapter presentation - Interfaces of the Future, Available Now (Augmented Reality Displays, Google Glass, 3D Sensors Bringing Computers into the Real World)
- Sept 2012 - Atlanta mini Maker Faire Surface mount soldering workshop
- Nov 2009 - Freeside Hackerspace workshop on Surface Mount Soldering with Solder Paste and Toaster Ovens
Surface Mount Soldering workshop at Freeside Hackerspace, 2009
Publications
- April 2013 - Pumps & Systems Magazine - Efficient AODD Pump Operation--Eliminating dry running can save money and protect equipment
- Jan 2009 - Make Magazine - Surface Mount Soldering Primer
- 2007 - Weinberg G., Driscoll, S. (2007) “The Interactive Robotic Percussionist: New Developments In Form, Mechanics, Perception And Interaction Design”, Proceeding of the ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction (HRI 2007), Arlington, VA. pp. 97-104.
- 2007 -Weinberg, G., Driscoll S. (2007) “Introducing Pitch, Melody and Harmony into Robotic Musicianship”, Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2007), New York City, NY, pp. 228-233.
- 2007 - Weinberg, G., Driscoll S. “The Robotic Percussionist – Bringing Interactive Computer Music into the Physical World”, in Sick. A. and Lishca C. (Eds.) Machines as Agency – Artistic perspectives. Bielefeld, Germany: Transcript Verlag Press, pp. 66-82.
- 2006 -Weinberg G., Driscoll S. “Robot-Human Interaction with an Anthropomorphic Percussionist” Proceedings of International ACM Computer Human Interaction Conference (CHI 2006). Montréal, Canada, pp. 1229 – 1232
- 2006 -Weinberg G., Driscoll, S., Thatcher T. “Jam ’aa – A Percussion Ensemble for Human and Robotic Players” ACM International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH 2006), Boston, MA.
- 2006 - Weinberg G., Driscoll S. “Towards Robotic Musicianship” Computer Music Journal 30:4, MIT Press, pp. 28-45
- May 2005 - MS Thesis - The Design and Qualification of a Hydraulic Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulator
- April 2013 - Pumps & Systems Magazine - Efficient AODD Pump Operation--Eliminating dry running can save money and protect equipment
- Jan 2009 - Make Magazine - Surface Mount Soldering Primer
- 2007 - Weinberg G., Driscoll, S. (2007) “The Interactive Robotic Percussionist: New Developments In Form, Mechanics, Perception And Interaction Design”, Proceeding of the ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction (HRI 2007), Arlington, VA. pp. 97-104.
- 2007 -Weinberg, G., Driscoll S. (2007) “Introducing Pitch, Melody and Harmony into Robotic Musicianship”, Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2007), New York City, NY, pp. 228-233.
- 2007 - Weinberg, G., Driscoll S. “The Robotic Percussionist – Bringing Interactive Computer Music into the Physical World”, in Sick. A. and Lishca C. (Eds.) Machines as Agency – Artistic perspectives. Bielefeld, Germany: Transcript Verlag Press, pp. 66-82.
- 2006 -Weinberg G., Driscoll S. “Robot-Human Interaction with an Anthropomorphic Percussionist” Proceedings of International ACM Computer Human Interaction Conference (CHI 2006). Montréal, Canada, pp. 1229 – 1232
- 2006 -Weinberg G., Driscoll, S., Thatcher T. “Jam ’aa – A Percussion Ensemble for Human and Robotic Players” ACM International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH 2006), Boston, MA.
- 2006 - Weinberg G., Driscoll S. “Towards Robotic Musicianship” Computer Music Journal 30:4, MIT Press, pp. 28-45
- May 2005 - MS Thesis - The Design and Qualification of a Hydraulic Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulator
past projects
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VMeter - A capacitive touch-based controller with blue LED display that can be used as an input on music programs or as a display. |
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Controversial Topic Discussion Club - Started and ran ~1k person meetup group in Atlanta that facilitates learning about controversial issues through moderated discussions and guest expert presentations. Now being run by other members.
CuriousInventor.com - 2006 onward - e-commerce site selling open-source electronic kits and tools, including synths, breadboard modules, and drill bits to arduino shields. The site also featured guides on soldering, metal working and electronics that are still 1st page google ranked.
Bitcoin Videos - Sometime in 2013 I disappeared into a black hole called Bitcoin, trying to learn everything I could about how it works, from the underlying cryptography to the mechanics of the blockchain. The result was a video that now has 500k+ views, followed by a shorter non-technical how-bitcoin-works version in 2014.
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Rasberry Pi Spectrum Analyzer LED Music Display - 2013 - Realtime FFT analysis of MP3s on a RasPi in Python and display on a 5m addressable LED strip. |
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DryStop AODD Pump Controller - 2010-2013 - Float-based level sensors in sumps often fail, leaving pumps running to waste thousands in compressed air and repair costs. This controller detects when pumps should turn off by listening to the heartbeat of the pump through the air inlet line without ever touching any fluid.
Sexting Belt Buckle Display - A hack of a belt buckle display to show incoming texts from an android phone. Uses an arduino with USB host shield to automatically press the buttons of the belt buckle and set the message when a text comes in.
16X PWM Led Fader / Motor Controller - 2012 - An open-source 16 channel PWM controller that takes commands from serial or SPI. An arduino or PC can use this to control many lights without having to manage the low-level PWM pulsing.
Stribe - 2008-2010 - An open-source collaboration with Josh Boughey, the stribe is an illuminated touch strip music controller. It utilized a linear touch resistor, and came out before touch screens were common on phones and everything else.
Voice of Saturn - 2009 onward - In a collaboration with Travis Thatcher, a collection of open-source sound modules, including synth, sequencer, filter and modulator. This line is now available at synthrotek. |
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2008 onward - Contracted by Tracy Evan's Productions to provide interactive lighting and motion control for several oil, gas and power industry exhibits.
DIY Spool Winder - 2010 - A home-made machine to re-spool 1 lb solder wire rolls into more hobbyist friendly 1 oz rolls. It consists of a hand drill, arduino and home-made encoder wheel, full instructions at the link (instructables).
FM Radio Arduino Shield - 2010 - A shield and arduino library for interfacing with with an FM radio chip (si4700) that had RDS capabilities. On certain stations, you could use the RDS info to automatically detect commercials and switch the station. Designed with Abhishek Narula.
Typo-matic - 2009 - A gadget you could put inline with a USB keyboard to subtly add typos, like occasionally holding down the shift key after an initial capital letter is detected. This project sadly never made it past prototype due to the high cost of the USB chips at the time, but may resurface someday!
Roboduino - 2010 - A collaboration with Eric Forkosh, the roboduino was an arduino-based board with better connections for servos used in robotics.
Soldering Videos - 2007-2011 - Soldering How-To videos geared towards DIYers that attempt to deliver just the essentials in the most concise time possible. Some of the most popular include through-hole soldering (1.4m views), surface mount soldering 101, hot air soldering, and desoldering.
Breadboard Modules - 2007-2010 - A collaboration with David Fowler of uCHobby (David did the design work), these modules provided commonly needed connections to breadboards from 5V power, MIDI connectors, to multimeter probe hookups.
Midiator - 2008 - An open-source converter box that lets you use a PS2 controller as a MIDI controller for music programs.
Basic Metal Working Tutorial Video - 2007 - A basic guide to using basic metal tools, like calipers, drill bits and taps, files, scribes, square and center punches. Information sourced from several machinists, the Machinery's Handbook (bible), and several other metal working books. See also: drill speed guide.
Screw type tutorial - 2008 - Currently the 2nd result on google for "screw types", this guide explains different types of screws, when to use them along with how to specify for given loads.
Haile Robotic Drummer - 2006-2007 - A robot that listens to other human players and plays along, synthesizing new rhythms from ideas presented by the humans. The research idea was to investigate a collaboration between human creativity and a machine's algorithmic capabilities. Challenges included beat-detection signal analysis and precise arm trajectory control. Claim to fame: featured on cnn home page one day! video from Denmark concert at robotics festival.
Hardware-in-the-Loop Hydraulic Simulator - 2003-2005 - (master's project) Created a simulated hydraulic environment to test controller designs on hard-to-model valves. Hydraulics are notoriously non-linear and hard to model; HIL simulation helps avoid a "simulation doomed to succeed" syndrome by incorporating real hardware in the simulation loop.
Magnifying Glass Ray Tracer - 2003 - A simulated magnifying glass via ray tracer project for a computer graphics class, complete with reflections, texture-mapping, shadows and anti-aliasing. This class was one of the most gratifying classes I took--seeing realistic pictures materialize from simple math equations was amazing. |
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