Jim Herd
Honorary Lecturer at Self-employed
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJim Herd is an electronic engineer and retired university lecturer with 13 years of formal experience and a multi-decade career designing embedded and real-time systems for astronomy, instrumentation and education. Based in Edinburgh, he specialised in developing small robotic vehicles and classroom-ready robotics technology that brought hands-on embedded systems into primary, secondary and university curricula. At Heriot-Watt he built laboratory hardware and taught embedded software and real-time design, and before academia worked as a consultant in astronomy instrumentation and as a technical director building industrial automation. Now an enthusiastic hobbyist, he continues to innovate on legacy robot kits and home automation projects, publishing code on GitHub and combining decades of practical know-how with a renewed focus on playful, low-cost hardware experimentation.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh CampusGithub contributions (5)
jimherd/Robokid_Blockly
Jul 2012 - Aug 2014
Contributions:106 commits in 2 years 1 month
jimherd/motion_1
Aug 2018 - Feb 2021
Contributions:97 pushes, 7 branches, 2 tags in 2 years 6 months
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