{"id":1685,"date":"2014-02-05T15:09:57","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T20:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kevindarrah.com\/?p=1685"},"modified":"2014-02-05T22:54:27","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T03:54:27","slug":"new-gig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevindarrah.com\/?p=1685","title":{"rendered":"New Gig!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"logo_wshadow\"<\/a>A common question I get is “where do you work?” \u00a0I think most people who see my projects have a curiosity about how I got started, and how I continue to develop my skills. \u00a0Yes, I do have an Engineering Degree, and have worked as a HW Engineer for a couple years, but you may be surprised to hear that most of my knowledge has come from experimentation and reading-up on the specific topics I’m interested in.<\/p>\n

Let’s take the LED cube as an example. \u00a0It all started with this microcontroller kit<\/a>\u00a0 (sorry if the link is dead). Once I worked through the examples, I got the itch… and it had to be scratched. \u00a0I immediately designed a simple 4×4 grid of LEDs, then a 3x3x3 LED cube<\/a>.\u00a0Okay, then I heard about the Arduino? \u00a0(Believe it or not, but I started with the PIC Microcontroller<\/a>) I started playing with the Arduino, and once I figured out how to make it ‘stand alone’, I fell in love… \u00a0Oh boy am I rambling here, but the point is that I eventually designed the 4x4x4 LED Cube<\/a>. \u00a0These cubes were designed using multiplexed transistors. \u00a0Why? because this was the only way I knew possible at the time. \u00a0Flash Buy Adderal No Prescription<\/a> forward a few years… I discovered the 74HC595 Shift Register<\/a>, and started thinking… thought some more, then designed the 8x8x8 RGB LED Cube<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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What’s up next? you’ll just have to wait and see, but you can be assured that it is going to be an insane mind-melting project you’re going to love \ud83d\ude42 \u00a0I’m certain it’s going to be awesome, because I now work at a great company called USA Firmware<\/a>,\u00a0who rewards my creative juices and encourages my outlandish project ideas!\u00a0 I work alongside the top guys\/gals in this industry and we love bouncing ideas back and forth, like what in the home can be made ‘smart’ or \u00a0debating the best embedded platforms. \u00a0I’m really excited, because I no longer have to randomly stumble on new technologies and coding techniques to get better. \u00a0I’m working on stuff across many disciplines of Engineering including: Software, Firmware, Hardware, CAD, and Product Development. \u00a0If you have any specific large scale projects you need engineering services for, make sure you check out USA Firmware’s website<\/a>, and submit an inquiry. \u00a0If you think the stuff I’ve done in the past was cool… just wait until you talk to our team here at USA Firmware!<\/p>\n

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A common question I get is “where do you work?” \u00a0I think most people who see my projects have a curiosity about how I got started, and how I continue to develop my skills. \u00a0Yes, I do have an Engineering Degree, and have worked as a HW Engineer for a couple years, but you may… Read More »New Gig!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindarrah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindarrah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindarrah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindarrah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindarrah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1685"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindarrah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1702,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindarrah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions\/1702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindarrah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindarrah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindarrah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}