Andy Lindsay
Applications Engineer - Education Department
Rocklin, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndy Lindsay is an applications engineer with 13+ years at Parallax Inc., designing educational microcontroller kits and authoring accompanying textbooks used from middle school through university. He combines a BS in Electrical & Electronic Engineering with deep hands-on experience in microcontroller hardware, PCB design, PBASIC, Spin and assembly language for the Propeller and BASIC Stamp platforms. Andy’s published work includes practical robotics and sensor textbooks—topics range from IR distance detection using consumer TV remotes to applied SumoBot projects—highlighting a knack for turning clever, low-cost hacks into repeatable classroom labs. He specializes in bridging curriculum and product, creating kits, labs and documentation that make embedded systems approachable for educators and students. Based in Rocklin, CA, he brings a long track record of shipping both hardware and instructional content that scale across educational levels. An often-overlooked strength is his ability to translate obscure hardware tricks into classroom-ready experiments that inspire hands-on learning.
13 years of coding experience
California State University, Sacramento
Github Skills (24)
parallax10
workspace10
loader8
software-update6
hardware6
device-management6
visual-programming-language5
blockly5
zombie5
firmware5
dataflow-programming4
visual-programming3
editor3
upstream2
eagle2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
parallaxinc/cyberbot
Oct 2018 - Apr 2021
Firmware, library, and loader code for cyberbot hardware
Contributions:2 releases, 76 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 6 months
firmwareopcuadevice-managementhardwareloader
parallaxinc/Simple-Libraries
Feb 2013 - May 2021
Contents of the SimpleIDE workspace folder and its Parallax Learn Simple Libraries subfolder.
Contributions:7 releases, 595 commits, 77 PRs in 8 years 4 months
parallaxcontentsworkspacesubfolder
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