Demine Robotics provides tools to make landmine clearance faster and safer. As co-founder and CTO, I led a small, scrappy team in Cambodia through the prototyping, testing, and launch of two products: a remote control bomb excavation implement, and a remote control retrofit for the construction equipment the attachment is used on.

There are estimated to be more than 40 million landmines and 100 million UXO still in the ground today. Most mines and UXO that are found are excavated by a deminer by hand -- using a trowel and a prod, and other similar tools.

The Jevit Mine Spade enables fast, safe excavation of mines using remotely operated equipment that keeps the deminer out of harms way.

In 2021 we completed field trails and received accreditation in Cambodia for our novel approach to removing mines from the ground. We launched clearance operations that have since freed 100,000 m2 (25 acres) of land previously containing mines and UXO.

Creating the Jevit Mine Spade and Jevit Camera Kit required working across domains including embedded systems, electric and hydraulic actuators, video streaming, android development, wireless comms, and UI/UX design.

Our tools are in operation in Ratanakiri, Cambodia - a large province bordering Vietnam that is heavily contaminated from the Vietnam war.

Mines and UXO are often found near buildings, roads, or trees and need to be relocated for demolition. Our tools allow the operator to remotely excavate and move the explosive.

#Python #OpenCV #ComputerVision #RaspberryPi #Hardware

Handle was built as a design project along with some of my awesome classmates last term. It's a game where you stickhanle a ball within the square on the floor, keeping it away from the moving laser.

There were two portions to the vision processing. The first is object tracking, or in this case "big orange ball tracking", demonstrated alongside my corny smile:

The second part is applying a transformation to the camera input to correct the distortion that results from an skewed angle. The camera doesn't see this square as a square:

Fear not! Drop a couple of dots on those corner coordinates and let a little bit of linear algebra do the rest!

And just like that, we're left with a true square. This now directly maps to the virtual playing area, where the real-world laser obstacle moving along the floor is mirrored by a moving circle on the screen.

The software is watching for collisions and controlling the pattern of the obstacle. The longer you survive, the higher your score!

#Marketing #SocialMedia #WebDesign #HTML #CSS

Digital Sabbath is an ongoing campaign I'm leading to encourage everyone to take a much needed break from technology - and in turn to fight digital addiction. This was an idea that stemmed from a FaithTech meetup, and we are now part of FaithTech Labs.

Check it out at digitalsabbath.io!

Tidbits is a tool that helps you build better relationships. It does this by helping you remember the names of new friends and keep better tabs on your old friends.

This is a side project that I've long wanted to bring to life. I've through the first few iterations of designs and now I'm building it with Rails and React Native.

#Photoshop #Rails #ReactNative #Bootstrap #Android #iOS

LiveLocal helps connect travellers with the concierge best suited to their travel destination, schedule, and preferences.

These designs were completed for an early stage startup called LiveLocal that has since ceased operation.

#Photoshop

Smart Greeting is an experiment in using technology to improve in-person interactions with TD customers in a branch. It uses Bluetooth beacons, the customer's phone, and a screen to notify the teller of an approaching customer's name. This technology was shown to customers in a "Comfort Test" to determine if they were open to this potentially surprising use of the devices they carry.

Smart Greeting was built during my time at TD Lab.

#Andriod #BluetoothGeolocation #AngularJS #HTML #CSS #Bootstrap #Node #MongoDB

Smart display is an experiment in how to effectively provide dynamic and interactive content that is personalized for TD customers. It uses Bluetooth beacons and the customers' phones to determine what content should be displayed on the screen at a given time to best appeal to the customer. If they are interested in the content, they can tap the NFC enabled screen with their phone to 'capture' an interactive version of the ad.

Smart Greeting was built during my time at TD Lab.

#Andriod #BluetoothGeolocation #NFC #AngularJS #HTML #CSS #Bootstrap #Node #MongoDB

HappyHeart, an anxiety attack tracking app was built at Hack@Brown 2016 for iOS and web, utilizing the heartrate sensor on the Microsoft Band. Our team placed in the top 10, and were awarded Best Data Visualization.

#HTML #CSS #Bootstrap #Node #MicrosoftAzure

The connected household is the way of the fast-approaching future - but how do you integrate new bluetooth/wifi enabled 'smart' devices and older tech like that tube TV you have sitting in the basement?

Enter MyoMote - our hack that utilizes the Myo and infra-red technology to bridge the gap of modern and not-so-modern household tech for the specific purpose of gesture control.

Our hacked proof of concept utilizes a Myo, an android phone, and an arduino. The Arduino: The hardware side of things include a bluetooth enabled arduino with an IR blaster and an IR receiver. The receiver allows the user to record the IR signal that is sent from a current remote. This signal is assigned to a gesture and repeated via the blaster when the gesture is performed.

#Arduino #IR #Bluetooth

As the Director of Technology for CUTC 2016, my role was to put technology to work for conference planning, marketing, ticketing, and execution. A big piece of this was the CUTC: Imagine Website.

#HTML #CSS #Bootstrap

I love building robots! Sometimes professionally, but mostly for fun. Take a look at some of my past creations:

Hundreds of hours and litres of sweat went into these bots. I love talking about the 'why' behind the designs and the 'how' behind the build, so feel free to ask!

#SolidWorks #Manufacturing #RobotC #Java #Pneumatics #Power Electronics #Control Systems

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