Poll: What part of town do you live in and/or work? (results are public)

***n8cutler*** · 02-21-2013, 04:55 PM,

Wow, I didn't check the site for a while and activity exploded! Good to see.

My name is Nathan. From the time I was little I enjoyed taking things apart to see how they worked and I wanted to be an Electrical/Electronics Engineer. I lost sight of that desire and right out of high school I had no idea what to do, so I completed a 2-year degree in Precision Machining Technology. I worked as a machinist for a while (manual mill, CNC mill, and CNC laser) and then went back to school for a Bachelor's in Developmental Psychology. Liked my job, but not the pay or paperwork so I went back for a second Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering. I love what I do now.

I am 31 years old and I have been married to my beautiful wife for 8 years (we started dating in high school...so we have been together for 13 years). We just had our first child at the end of November. So needless to say I am pretty busy with a 12 week old son right now. I work in R&D as a Design Engineer in Liberty Lake and live in Spokane Valley. I enjoy hardware, software, and anything that bridges the gap.

I enjoy tinkering with microcontrollers, FPGAs, Linux, Matlab, web development, machining, C#, etc.

Some projects finished include:
RFID card reader (built from scratch...with wound wire and 68HC11) that starts a coffee maker and disco ball with the correct access card (built with a friend)
Built DSP image tracking program that tracks object in front of webcam and rotates a 3D object on a computer monitor to match the yaw, pitch, and roll of the object in the camera view...then added robotic arm to move camera to keep object centered. (built with friend)
Built DSP video recorder that records and saves off a few minutes from webcam when it sees movement (built this to catch which dog was digging in my back yard)
Built many web based tools (raw, ugly tools that are for personal use but do cool stuff)

Current/Never-ending projects:
Benchtop CNC mill conversion
Various microcontroller projects
PSoC project (work related...but doing it on my own time)
RaspberryPi (started last night...a big thanks to Whi7eRa66iT for the RPi!)

As a kinesthetic learner, I think a hackerspace is just what Spokane needs and I am pumped to see this all coming together!

Poll: What part of town do you live in and/or work? (results are public) You do not have permission to vote in this poll.
Downtown/Browne's Addition	16.33%	8	16.33%
Northside Spokane	26.53%	13	26.53%
Mead Spokane	0%	0	0%
South Hill/Edgecliff	8.16%	4	8.16%
Spokane Valley	36.73%	18	36.73%
Prairie (Palouse/Rockford/Latah/etc.)	0%	0	0%
Deer Park	2.04%	1	2.04%
Cheney	4.08%	2	4.08%
Colville/Chewelah	2.04%	1	2.04%
Post Falls/ Cd'A Idaho	4.08%	2	4.08%
Total		49 vote(s)	100%