User:Andrewvaughan

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Member
Name:	Andrew Vaughan
Member Since:	April 18, 2017
Member Type:	Full
Aliases:	wspnut, uggakanukka2000
Phone:	312-476-9966
Email:	[email protected]
IRC Handle:	andrewvaughan
Other Contact:	@andrewvaughan
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Belt and Disk Sander, Delta 12" Drill Press, Excalibur Router Table, Grizzly 6" Jointer, Laguna 16" Planer, Rockwell Delta 20" Bandsaw, SawStop Table Saw, Sears Scroll Saw
Certifier Of
Equipment on Loan to PS:1

Andrew Vaughan (joined April 18th, 2017) is a full member of Pumping Station:One. Professionally, he acts as Chief Product Officer for Hyatt Hotels, helping build policies and procedures to drive innovative customer experiences. When not at work, Andrew spends time with his girlfriend, two dogs, and cat. In his spare time, he develops software and rotates through numerous hobbies. The often large-scale nature of his initiatives is what ultimately lead him to Pumping Station: One.

Andrew's hobbies and passions rotate regularly, including Electronics, Carpentry, Category:Programming, CAD, Luthierie, Pipe Making, Soap Making, Brewing and many more. Andrew is a Level 2 Certified Sommelier through the Wine Spirit and Education Trust of England.

Although sporadically maintained, Andrew's personal blog contains detail and insight into many of the initiatives he undertakes. He also maintains public and active project and task lists on this wiki in an effort to empower others to reference his work.

Contact

Andrew can be reached through Pumping Station: One's public and private mailing lists, via the Pumping Station: One IRC channel (user andrewvaughan), or through one of his Social Media networks, such as Twitter or LinkedIn. For urgent situations, Andrew can be contacted directly by emailing him or by calling or texting his cellphone.

Projects

Andrew generally has a significant number of projects in various phases of completion at any given time. These projects are listed as Active, in-which they are currently underway, Completed, wherein no further work is planned for an initiative, or Archived, where the project has been placed on pause indefinitely (unless otherwise noted).

The following projects are in various stages of active development, whether they be in Inception, Planning, in Design, in Development, or Finishing. Occasionally, active projects will have a final Packaging step, if they are being sold or distributed.

Along with these status, a qualifier of Ongoing represents that there is no foreseeable end to the project, and that iterative development will continue indefinitely.

Inception

Boeing 737-800 Flight Simulator Enclosure

Woodworking, Electronics

A fully-functional, to-scale model of a Boeing 737-800 flight cockpit, with functional toggles, switches, and gauges, processed through shared USB signaling devices and compatible with Microsoft Flight Simulator X, X-Plane 11, and Lockheed Martin Prepar3d v3.

Programmable Entry to PS:1

Electronics

Rebuild the locking mechanism for Pumping Station: One to be programmable, so that buzzer entry can be scheduled, and RFID entry can be used the remainder of the time.

Damascus Steel Hunting Knife

Hot Metals, Woodworking

A forged and hand-carved hunting knife, with Damascus Steel as an introduction to forging.

Planning

Soprano Ukulele

Woodworking

An effort to build the moulds, jigs, and other systems to empower easily-repeatable builds of high-quality, hand-made Ukuleles. Soprano Ukulele's being the smallest of the Ukulele set (with some exceptions), can be one of the most challenging Luthierie projects given the preciseness needed for the build coupled with the small footprint of the design.

Dockerized Gary's Mod Server

Programming

Building on the Dockerized Steam Server project, this open-source library provides a push-button mechanism to launch a Garry's Mod server for use with the game Prop Hunt.

Tenor Ukulele

Woodworking

Similar to the Soprano Ukulele project, but with moulds, jigs, and systems to build Tenor ukuleles.

Briarwood Smoking Pipe

Woodworking

Using only hand-tools (with the exception of preliminary block cut of the wood), Andrew aims to carve a functional smoking pipe from briarwood.

Design

8-Bit CPU

Electronics

A build of an entirely-functional 8-bit CPU, using a custom developed architecture and instruction set, using only TLS and CMOS chips. The CPU is designed to be modular and expandable, so that further instructions and capabilities can be added in the future.

MiniNES

Electronics

A Raspberry Pi project with a 3D-printed NES enclosure to support a custom version of the RetroPie project.

Development

Bath Bombs

Arts and Science Ongoing

A series of methods and formulary to create effervescent bath bombs with multiple combinations of oils, clays, and salts.

Cat Tree

Woodworking

A simple cat tree for use at home, complete with three levels, hooks for hanging toys, a removable ladder, and an enclosed house on the second floor.

Bread Baking

Arts and Science Ongoing

A number of hand-made bread recipes. No bread machines here!

LillyOS

Programming

A custom-built boot loader, file system, and operating system intended for use in high-security, low-detection file transfer. LillyOS is encrypted at time of cross-compilation with a private key that is used to load the operating and file systems into memory at load. Therefore, without the correct seed, invalid instruction sets will be processed by the host computer, instead of simply encrypting just the files on the operating system itself.

Beer Brewing

Arts and Science Ongoing

Recipes and techniques for making tasty, tasty Beer.

Completed

SNES-in-a-Controller

Electronics (April 2017)

Originally a challenge as a 30-Minute Build, the SNES-in-a-Controller uses a Raspberry Pi Zero, an integrated lithium-ion charging circuit, battery, and USB SNES controller to provide a portable, HDMI-compatible RetroPie emulator.

10-Seat Racetrack Poker Table

Woodworking (June 2010)

A 10-seat poker table in a racetrack design with arm padding, polished wood track, speedfelt center, and closed-cell foam to prevent spill rot.

Docker-Supported Steam Server

Programming (February 2017)

An open-source Docker project that provides push-button launching of any dedicated Steam server. Supports all current versions of Ubuntu as a base image for the virtual machine, and is available in the formal Docker Hub.

RaspberryPi Reduced-Image Tool

Programming (May 2016)

An open-source tool to help users reduce the bloatware included with the formal Raspbian image provided by the Raspberry Pi Foundation, as well as to help new users understand the purpose and footprint with pre-included packages.

Equipment Authorizations

Current Authorizations

Equipment	Area	Authorizer	Date
Epilog 30w Mini 24 Laser Engraver	CNC	Burton Kent	May 3, 2017
Laguna 16" Planer	Wood Shop	Andy Larkin	April 26, 2017
Rockwell Delta 20" Bandsaw	Wood Shop	Andy Larkin	April 26, 2017
Delta 12" Drill Press	Wood Shop	Andy Larkin	April 26, 2017
Grizzly 6" Jointer	Wood Shop	Andy Larkin	April 26, 2017
Sears Scroll Saw	Wood Shop	Andy Larkin	April 26, 2017
Belt and Disk Sander	Wood Shop	Andy Larkin	April 26, 2017
Excalibur Router Table	Wood Shop	Andy Larkin	April 26, 2017
SawStop Table Saw	Wood Shop	Andy Larkin	April 26, 2017

Pending Authorizations

Area	Equipment	Priority
Wood Shop	Drum Sander (TBD)	1 - Urgent
	Ridgid Oscillating Spindle Sander	1 - Urgent
	Jet Wood Lathe	4 - Low
	Hitachi M12V Router	4 - Low
	Ryobi R161 Router	4 - Low
	Ryobi R181FB Router	4 - Low
	Vacuum Table	5 - Trivial
CNC	Prusa i3 3D Printer	1 - Urgent
	Z-Builder Ultra 3D Printer	1 - Urgent
	Shapeoko Router	1 - Urgent
	ShapeOko2 CNC Router	1 - Urgent
	Shopbot PRS CNC router	1 - Urgent
	HP DesignJet T520 Large Format Color Printer	1 - Urgent
	Lulzbot Taz3	2 - High
	BOSS LS-3655 150w Laser Engraver	2 - High
	Vinyl Cutter	3 - Moderate
	CNC Plasma Cutter	4 - Low
	Cricut Die Cutting Machine	5 - Trivial
Arts	Singer 20U Industrial Sewing Machine	3 - Moderate
	Sears Kenmore Model 158.18130 Sewing Machine	4 - Low
	J.C.Penney Free Arm Sewing Machine	4 - Low
	Singer Serger 14T948DS	4 - Low
	Brother 230 Knitting Machine	5 - Trivial
	Brother KH-930 Knitting Machine	5 - Trivial
	Evenheat 810 Kiln	5 - Trivial

Areas of Expertise

Andrew has proficiency in a number of skills. If you would like advice or assistance in any of these areas, please do not hesitate to reach out. In terms of ratings:

Inexperienced
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Little-to-no hands on experience. Interest has been expressed, but experience has not been sought.

Novice
★ ☆ ☆ ☆
Experienced with basic topics and common knowledge of the subject matter expert. May result from self-training.

Amateur
★ ★ ☆ ☆
Comfortable with most of scope; well-experienced with highly-common tasks. Able to teach others basic areas of subject matter.

Intermediate
★ ★ ★ ☆ Highly experienced, including most edge-cases. Able to teach others in nearly all areas of subject matter.

Expert
★ ★ ★ ★ Advanced experience with subject matter. Learning is replaced with research. Seeking mentorship becomes difficult or impossible.

Arts and Science

Skill	Experience
Beer Brewing	★ ★ ★ ★
Photography (Nikon)	★ ★ ★ ☆
Bread Baking	★ ★ ★ ☆
Cooking	★ ★ ★ ☆
Wine	★ ★ ★ ☆
General Chemistry	★ ★ ☆ ☆
Soap Making	★ ★ ☆ ☆
3D Modeling	★ ☆ ☆ ☆
Silkscreening	★ ☆ ☆ ☆
3D Animation	☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Bracelet Making	☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Crochet	☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Earring Making	☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Knitting	☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Necklace Making	☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Paper Making	☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Ring Making	☆ ☆ ☆ ☆

CNC and 3D Printing

Skill	Experience
CAD	★ ★ ★ ☆
3D Printing	★ ☆ ☆ ☆
CNC Routing	★ ☆ ☆ ☆
Laser Cutting	☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Plastic Injection Moulding	☆ ☆ ☆ ☆

Electronics

Skill	Experience
Microcontrollers	★ ★ ★ ☆
Digital Circuit Design	★ ★ ☆ ☆
Analog Circuit Design	★ ★ ☆ ☆

Metallurgy

Skill	Experience
Knife Sharpening	☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Knife Smithing	☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
MIG Welding	☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Plasma Cutting	☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
TIG Welding	☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Tool Smithing	☆ ☆ ☆ ☆

Software Development

Skill	Experience
DevOps	★ ★ ★ ★
HTML/CSS	★ ★ ★ ★
Javascript	★ ★ ★ ★
Node.js	★ ★ ★ ★
PHP	★ ★ ★ ★
Bash	★ ★ ★ ☆
Java	★ ★ ★ ☆
Python	★ ★ ★ ☆
Assembly	★ ★ ☆ ☆
C++	★ ★ ☆ ☆
Game Theory	★ ★ ☆ ☆
Unity	★ ☆ ☆ ☆

Woodworking

Skill	Experience
General Carpentry	★ ★ ☆ ☆
Luthierie	★ ☆ ☆ ☆
Pipe Making	★ ☆ ☆ ☆
Wood Identification	★ ☆ ☆ ☆
Furniture Making	☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Wood Inlays	☆ ☆ ☆ ☆

Miscellaneous

Skill	Experience
Flight Simulation	★ ★ ★ ☆

Resources

The following resources are some of Andrew's preferred sources of information regarding projects, best practices, and safety:

Type	Resource	Category	Sub-Category	Date	Notes
Video 1:00:00	Making a Guitar - Handcrafted Woodworking (Greenfield Guitars)	Woodworking	Luthierie	2016-09-11	Excellent documentary on hand-making a guitar from start to finish. Not a tremendous amount of instruction, but excellent for inspiration and learning the basics of the process.
Video Channel	Ben Eater's YouTube Channel	Electronics	Digital Circuit Design	2017-04-28	Amazing set of informative videos on TTL digital logic. Ben builds a 4-bit adder and 8-bit CPU from scratch.
Video Channel	NileRed's YouTube Channel	Arts and Science	Category:Chemistry	2017-04-28	Tons of videos on how to do interesting chemical reactions using a basic glass set and household products.