Jeff Highsmith
Director Of Exhibits at Marbles Kids Museum
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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SeniorJeff Highsmith is a hands-on creative technologist and museum exhibits leader with 13 years of experience designing, fabricating, and programming interactive, often robotic, exhibits for children. Currently Director of Exhibits at Marbles Kids Museum, he blends practical construction roots with self-taught electronics, embedded C firmware, and Python application development to bring playful, sensor-driven installations to life. His work spans cabinetry and 3D design to motors, LEDs, sound, and graphical applications on Linux, with signature projects like a musical staircase and kid-programmable tilting ball maze. Comfortable moving between shop, code, and public-facing testing, Jeff combines maker-media experience and instructional skills to create durable, imaginative experiences that invite hands-on learning.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (22)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
UnicycleDumpTruck/PiLarm
Jul 2013 - Nov 2013
Use a RaspberryPi as an all-in-one-box, motion-sensing alarm and notification system.
Contributions:12 commits in 3 months
raspberry-pi
UnicycleDumpTruck/MorseRiddler
Nov 2016 - Apr 2026
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 5 months
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