James Baber
Electronics And Motion Control Engineer at Aardman
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJames Baber is an Electronics and Motion Control Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience designing, repairing and operating complex electromechanical systems across film production and live events. Based in Bristol, he progressed from student technician and chief broadcast engineer roles into embedded prototyping and IoT work, and now develops motion control solutions at Aardman. James combines practical skills in rigging, DMX networks and PA maintenance with embedded development on platforms like Raspberry Pi and ESP32, giving him a rare blend of live-show reliability and prototype engineering. He thrives on learning through projects, often turning downtime into hardware improvements, and brings a pragmatic, test-driven approach to delivering robust motion and control systems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Electronic Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Electronic Engineering at Solent UniversityBackwell School
French, English
Stackoverflow
62reputation
666reached
2answers
4questions
Github Skills (51)
arduino-library9
arduino9
esp328
esp-idf8
music8
digital-signal-processing8
decoding8
cnc-controller7
encoding7
audio7
fft7
streaming7
toggl6
php6
py2exe6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jamesbaber/jamesbaber.github.io
Jan 2015 - Sep 2022
Contributions:118 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 9 months
jamesbaber/blog
Jan 2019 - May 2026
Contributions:138 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 5 months
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