Rich Legrand
Founder And Chief Engineer at Charmed Labs
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRich Legrand is a founder and chief engineer with 12+ years leading embedded and robotics product development, known for turning expensive hardware into cost-effective solutions through firmware, electronics, and clever software. He designed and shipped high-volume vision products—most notably the Pixy CMUcam5 (over 100K units sold) and Vizy AI Camera—combining ARM microcontroller optimization, image processing at 60+ FPS, and CNN-based features to make computer vision accessible to education markets. A hands-on leader, he writes firmware, designs electronics, manages manufacturing, and has a proven Kickstarter track record raising >$450K across projects. His work blends deep robotics and embedded systems expertise with product-level cost/feature tradeoff analysis and a patient, methodical problem-solving style that favors pragmatic, well-tested code. Based in Austin and grounded in robotics research (MS EE) and dual degrees from Rice, he also contributed low-level drivers to the popular pixy open-source firmware, showing sustained commitment to community tools.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MS Electrical Engineering (robotics), MS Electrical Engineering (robotics) at North Carolina State UniversityBS Electrical Engineering, BA Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, BS Electrical Engineering, BA Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science at Rice University
Github Skills (9)
c1710
firmware10
i2c10
embedded10
spi10
c1110
microcontroller10
sys10
embedded-linux5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
charmedlabs/pixy
Sep 2013 - May 2018
pixy CMUcam5
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer
Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:397 commits, 2 PRs, 91 pushes in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Rich's contributions primarily focus on implementing core functionalities within the Pixy CMUcam5 firmware. The commits reveal the development of low-level drivers and functionalities.
charmedlabs/pixy2
May 2018 - May 2021
Contributions:82 commits, 2 PRs, 66 pushes in 3 years
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