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Recent Work & Projects

Recent Work & Projects

The Tenacity Rover

A green 3D-printed rover in the parking lot at CircuitLaunch, Oakland, CA.
The “Tenacity” 3D-printed rover hanging out in the CircuitLaunch parking lot.

The Tenacity Rover is the workhorse of the lab space here at Familiar. Similar to the rovers at the JPL “Mars Yard”, it gets stuff bolted to it, removed and replaced again, all in the name of testing out new software, sensors and techniques for the projects I’m working on.
It has its own Hackaday page and YouTube channel.

Project: Weed-Detection & Mitigation using Machine Vision
  • Project for neighborhood road assoc., Loveland, CO
  • Developed image classifier to identify invasive plants for wildfire mitigation using custom dataset, Roboflow,OpenCV & DepthAI

Client:Parker/LORD Microstrain
  • Development & Integration of ROS node, “Heads-Up Display” app for GX series IMU/GNSS device using OpenCV
Screenshot of data from an IMU/GNSS system overlayed on top of the video feed from a rover exploring a local park.

Client: Special Circumstances, LLC.
Several electronics breadboards wired into each other. A Teensy 4.1 board is wired into the GPIO connections of a Raspi adapter.

Client: Stealth-mode Autonomous Vehicle startup
  • Compute/Network Rack CAD for ATV Trunk/CargoBay
“Spot Box”
  • Power/Network Adapter box/board developed in-house for Boston Dynamics “SPOT” Robot, feat. 5/12/24V power & POE/Gigabit Ethernet.
Spot with the Familiar SpotBox PoE/Power Adapter
A Quadruped robot with a prototype expansion board designed by Familiar Robotics attached to it.
Boston Dynamics Spot with a prototype PoE Power/Data board designed by Familiar Robotics

Roboticist in Residence work at Circuit Launch
  • Doosan Palletizer bring-up: PLC wiring/programming. 3D-scanning gripper for simulation
A robot geek and his robot arm.
Hanging out with a new *BIG* friend, a Doosan palletizer robot.