User:Dan Barlow
Proponent of Personal Practice of Technology including Right to Repair and Right to Own.
B.S. Physics. Experience in computer assembly, network design and configuration, programming (Visual Basic, Perl, Delphi, PHP/CSS/HTML, Tool Command Language/Tool Kit, microcontroller C (Arduino and SDCC), foggy memories of Assembly, FORTRAN, C++, FORTH, Logo, 8K BASIC and others.
Also have worked for a motion picture film lab, acquiring archival footage from National Archives, organizing it, cleaning it, repairing torn perforations and other defects, and providing it to the colorist for digitization. Repaired vintage video and audio equipment such as DigiBeta head change, Ampex Quad restoration to broadcast quality, 1/2 inch reel to reel video tape recorder.
Have been certified to provide warranty service for Toshiba and HP products including wide inkjet plotters.
Most recently, served as a scientific programmer for a psychological research group. Helped define experiment requirements, implemented experiments in a proprietary object oriented real time experiment control application, tested stimulus and response hardware to assure timing accuracy, wrote TCP control packets for various hardware, provided tech support during experiment runs, debugged data gathering and synchronizing, and wrote Tcl/Tk scripts with SQLite to verify data hygiene and produce requested statistics.
Currently disabled and pursuing my many art and tech projects as my condition allows.
My interests (no particular order)
Photography (Digital, Analog, Laser Written, Autochrome), Painting, Lasers and laser displays, Audio electronics, FPGA and PCIe development, Arduino Mega, Raspberry Pi Pico, Expressif WiFi controllers, robotics including servo and hydraulics, digital video and analog rescan, Crystals (piezoelectric and growing them), and electronic circuit and PCB design.
