Sort-of-retired embedded computer systems designer. Learned to code using punch cards on a University’s Cyber-70 mainframe in 1975. By 1978 my work involved designing single-chip processor control systems for industrial machinery, mostly aerospace metal forming. Had an email address in 1976 loaned to me by a friend working at Tektronix when only 100 nodes were pushing packets on the ARPAnet. Fun and interesting times.

Proud that no worker was ever injured using the hydraulic presses, tube swaggers, tube benders, deep draw or bulgeforming machines that my electronics controlled… " a man gotta have a code" (Omar Little - RIP, HBO’s - The Wire)

Currently working to design experimental residential housing approaches to reduce material and construction time, with the goal of providing more affordable housing. I figure, for over 100-years a bunch of architects have tried (and mostly failed) to accomplish this very difficult task, so maybe it’s time for an engineering/manufacturing person to give it a go, you never know, could get lucky. As a young newly graduated architecture student Pier Nervi probably would have solved the problem but a world war interrupted his efforts.