Jeff Highsmith
Director Of Exhibits at Marbles Kids Museum
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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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
Github Skills (23)
alarm10
notification9
adafruit8
iobroker7
raspberry-pi6
material-ui6
gatsby5
python5
markdown4
open-source3
solidworks2
simulator2
arduino2
gift2
zen1
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-piboxsensingall-in-onemotion
UnicycleDumpTruck/VetRFID
Dec 2021 - Oct 2022
Museum exhibit using a JADAK 4-port RFID reader to read laundry tags in plush animals and display pretend medical imagery.
Contributions:7 PRs, 237 pushes, 11 branches in 10 months
exhibitplushimagerypretendrfid-reader
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