Ed Simmons
Contract Hardware Design And Consultancy For Micropix LTD at ESImaging
Folkestone and Hythe District, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorEd Simmons is a hardware and software design consultant with 13 years' experience building microscopy and medical image acquisition systems, combining PCB design, analog and mixed-signal electronics, firmware and C++ device drivers for Micro-Manager on Windows and Linux. He runs ESImaging/ESTechnical, delivering end-to-end products from specifications and prototypes through small-scale manufacturing and board production. Comfortable across embedded MCUs, SPI/I2C buses, CNC/G-code and desktop GUI plugins in Java, he brings practical optics and photography insight to optimize imaging pipelines. Actively promoting Micro-Manager as an open alternative to commercial packages, he is now focused on adding FPGA expertise (VHDL/Verilog) to his toolkit to accelerate real-time imaging and acquisition.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (81)
px410
controller10
firmware10
esp3210
ros10
autopilot10
qt10
mavlink10
avr10
pagerduty10
vendor10
atmel10
drones10
commercial10
3d-printing10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
estechnical/reflowOvenController
Sep 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:1 release, 11 commits, 8 pushes in 4 months
estechnical/alarm-monitor-server
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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