User:Dbever

Derek Bever

• AKA loans on the IRC

derek.bever (at) gmail.com

Secretary 2014

I come from a stage lighting background. I currently work at a small lighting equipment rental company in the service department. I'm certified by both Vari*Lite and Martin for moving light repair, and have a lot of experience with conventional and LED fixtures as well.

Things I do and could probably teach someone about

• General Electronics
• Electronics troubleshooting and repair
• Soldering
• Arduino development
• 3D Printing
• Welding
• Basic woodworking
• Stage lighting
• Live sound reinforcement
• Sound recording
• Electronic music production
• Photography

Things I'm learning about

• Machining
• Linux
  • Fish shell
• Desktop programming, mostly Go

Active Projects

Most of this is backburner

Front Burner

• 3D Printed cameras
• An arduino-based Open DMX Controller
• An arduino-based multi-channel PWM controller with a super-simple user interface
• Most useless indicator
• Arduino-based electronics kits: https://github.com/loansindi/Color-O-Tron https://github.com/loansindi/ps1_noise

Back Burner

• Developing a basic electronics curriculum
• A guitar with built-in DSP and subtractive synthesis
• Python based, command line equipment tracking software
• Machining gyroscopes for experimentation
• Casting of precious metals
• Skills-exchange kiosk

Still being conceived

• Portable Laugh Track