James Mclurkin
Maker Extraordinaire at Kid-in-the-Box Consulting
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJames Mclurkin is a robotics engineer and maker with over two decades of hands-on experience building and leading multi-robot systems, including two swarms exceeding 100 robots and the DARPA-funded 112-robot swarm at iRobot. He combines deep academic credentials (Ph.D. and S.M. from MIT, M.S. from UC Berkeley) with industry productization, having led research labs at Rice and shipped hardware as a senior hardware engineer at Google. Equally comfortable with electrical, mechanical, and computational integration, he focuses on distributed computational geometry, multi-robot manipulation, and physical data structures for collective computation. James now runs Kid-in-the-Box Consulting, returning to grassroots hardware development while continuing to mentor the next generation through projects like Google’s AIY. His career blends award-winning research, museum exhibit advising, and large-scale system engineering—revealing a rare mix of theoretical depth and practical prototype-building. Based in Seattle, he brings a proven track record of translating swarm robotics theory into robust, real-world systems.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Electrical Engineering, M.S., Electrical Engineering at University of California, BerkeleyPh.D., S.M., Computer Science, Ph.D., S.M., Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (7)
eclipse-plugin6
eclipse6
spring-batch-admin6
clock6
spring6
java6
arduino3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jamesmclurkin/NerfTech
Sep 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:35 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
jamesmclurkin/arduino_analog_clock
Jul 2020 - Sep 2021
A fun Arduino-based analog clock.
Contributions:1 PR, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
analogclockanalog-clockarduino
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